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fantasticalness|fænˈtæstɪkəlnɪs|
Also 7 phantasticalness.
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality, condition, or fact of being fantastical.
†1. The condition of being subject to phantasms.
1547Boorde Brev. Health ii. 27 Fantasticalnes, or collucion, or illusyons of the deuyll.
2. Addiction to strange fancies; eccentricity, oddity; an instance of this.
1581Mulcaster Positions xlv. (1887) 297 Is that point in suspition of any noueltie or fantasticallnes to haue wymen learned? 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 266 Their..phantasticalnesse in apparall. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. lviii. 229 Six little Girls danced with six of the oldest men..which seemed to us a very pretty fantasticalness. c1698Locke Cond. Underst. §34 We are taught to cloath our minds..after the fashion in vogue, and it is accounted fantasticalness..not to do so. 1821Southey in Life (1849) I. 39 Their mother was plainly crazed with hypochondriacism and fantasticalness. 1871Hawthorne Septimius (1879) 119 The fantasticalness of his present pursuit.
3. Absurd unreality.
1847De Quincey Schlosser's Lit. Hist. Wks. VIII. 55 Chloes and Corydons—names that proclaim the fantasticalness of the life with which they are..associated.
†4. Capriciousness, whimsicality; waywardness.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xxiii. 139 The wicked Fantasticalnesse of men in worshipping the sunne. 1678Otway Friendship in F. iv. i. The fantasticalness of your appetite. |