Home › Words › C › corkinesscorkinesscorkiness · noun — the quality of being corky.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom corky + -ness.nounThe quality of being corky.e.g.“Once you know how, spotting corked wine is easy – but the fact is that you shouldn't have to. It takes time to learn to distinguish different characters in a wine – and corkiness is one of them” — 2007, Giles Kime, The laid back wine guide:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.corklike 75% match — Resembling or characteristic of a cork. vs corkiness →corkish 73% match — corklike vs corkiness →corkingly 70% match — In a corking manner; splendidly. vs corkiness →corky 69% match — Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork. vs corkiness →brickiness 67% match — The quality of being bricky. vs corkiness →crotchetiness 67% match — The state or quality of being crotchety. vs corkiness →crackeriness 66% match — The quality of being crackery. vs corkiness →corniness 66% match — The state or condition of being corny. vs corkiness →