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feyness|ˈfeɪnɪs| [f. fey a. + -ness.] The state or quality of being fey.
1873J. Brown Round Table Club 254 She wis a bonnie lassie—ower bonnie tae live lang. There wis a feyness aboot her. 1926Spectator 9 Oct. 568/1 That queer, elusive ‘feyness’..of Miss Fay Compton. 1927K. Macleod Road to Isles i. 27 There is also in it a whole storm of rapture, perhaps of feyness. Gladness must come to its own some time. 1930Time & Tide 24 May 677 That ethereal physique and effect of feyness which has helped her to so many of her successes. 1963Listener 21 Mar. 529/2, I find it difficult to reconcile the authorship of the flip, alert opening scenes with the awful feyness of what followed. 1968R. V. Beste Repeat Instructions xxiv. 271 There was no trace of feyness in the grim, drawn lines of his face. |