feynessn.
/ˈfeɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈfeɪnᵻs/ The state or quality of being fey.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness
woodnessc1000
woodshipc1000
madshipc1225
woodc1275
woodhead1303
ragec1330
amentiaa1398
madnessa1398
frenzy?a1400
madheada1400
maddingc1400
alienation?a1425
furiosity?a1475
derverye1480
forcenery1480
furiousnessc1500
unwitness1527
unwitting1527
demencya1529
straughtness1530
insaniea1538
brainsickness1541
lunacy1541
amenty1557
distraughtness1576
dementation?1583
straughtedness1583
insanity1590
crazedness1593
bedlam1598
dementia1598
insanation1599
non compos mentis1607
distraction1609
daffinga1614
disinsanitya1625
cerebrosity1647
vecordy1656
fanaticness1662
non-sanity1675
insaneness1730
craziness1755
hydrophobia1760
vecord1788
derangement1800
vesania1800
a screw loose1810
unsoundness1825
dementedness1833
craze1841
psychosis1847
crackiness1861
feyness1873
crack1891
meshugas1898
white ant1908
crackedness1910
pottiness1933
loopiness1939
wackiness1941
screwballism1942
kink1959
the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > influence or power of
bewitching1535
spell1592
feyness1873
wizardry1884
magicality1924
1873 J. Brown Round Table Club 254 She wis a bonnie lassie—ower bonnie tae live lang. There wis a feyness aboot her.
1926 Spectator 9 Oct. 568/1 That queer, elusive ‘feyness’..of Miss Fay Compton.
1927 K. 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.
1930 Time & Tide 24 May 677/2 That ethereal physique and effect of feyness which has helped her to so many of her successes.
1963 Listener 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.
1968 R. V. Beste Repeat Instruct. xxiv. 271 There was no trace of feyness in the grim, drawn lines of his face.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1873