1. the quality or state of being spooky; eeriness or scariness

Examples

• The spookiness of the old mansion made everyone nervous.
• Halloween decorations added to the spookiness of the neighborhood.
• The fog created an atmosphere of spookiness in the cemetery.
• She loved the spookiness of ghost stories told around the campfire.
• The spookiness of the abandoned building kept people away.
• The movie’s spookiness came from its eerie sound effects.