Home › Words › H › hawkinesshawkinesshawkiness means the state of resembling or being similar to a hawk; hawkishness.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, hawkiness ranks #25,547 of 42,806 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom hawky + -ness.nounThe state of resembling or being similar to a hawk; hawkishness.e.g.“She was drab and depressed and seemed to be trying not to cry. But the depressed face had the right slight hawkiness about it, and there was no question that they knew one another well.” — 1981, Diana Wynne Jones, The Time of the Ghost, New York, N.Y.: Beech Tree, published 1997, →ISBN, page 123:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).