desipiencen.
/dɪˈsɪpɪəns/ Folly; foolish trifling, silliness.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [noun]
giddiheadc1275
giddinessa1290
lighthead1340
vanityc1386
glaikitnessa1500
idleness1535
levity1564
emptiness1577
vainness1591
frivolousnessa1631
volageness1633
grollery1637
brain-giddinessa1652
desipience1656
desipiencya1682
frothinessa1716
inanity1756
frivolity1796
unpracticalness1828
unpracticality1840
bird-wittedness1854
scattiness1959
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Desipience is when the sick person speaks and doth idly; dotage.
1882 A. W. Ward Dickens ii. 24 Occasional desipience in the form of the wildest farce.
1887 Spectator 17 Sept. 1251 The maturity of sweet desipience.
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n.1656- in their ruff
- in their sense
- in their shoes
- in their way
- in theory
- in there
- in there pitching
- in thick and thin
- in thing
- in this behalf
- in this bitch
- in this connection
- in this context
- in this day and age
- in this manner of wise
- in this manner wise
- in this meantime
- in this meanwhile
- in this neck of the woods
- in this present
- in this regard
- in this respect
- in this sense
- in this the another connection
- in this the etc connection