winkiness

noun

1. (uncountable)The quality of being winky.

   “Resplendent, happy and glorious, appeared our Princess and our Prince! and mightily enjoying the feast of music prepared for them in small parcels, sat all the Royalties and Attracting Magnates; while the great officers of State (in such a state, too! with the thermometer at ninety-five degrees in the electric light shade, if any) watched, lynx-eyed, yet with the gentle winkiness of the cooing turtle-dove.”

   “His cheeks showed plump and pleasant pinkiness, / His hair a fascinating kinkiness; / Droll was his left eye’s lurking winkiness, / But, dears, his little brain lacked thinkiness!”

   “The Tarantino comparison is obvious, thought it reduces Amores Perros to imply that it’s some kind of Latin Pulp Fiction — the former has a more serious dramatic agenda, and none of the self-satisfied winkiness that makes Tarantino fun but also a pernicious progenitor of empty ironizing ad infinitum.”