mooninessn.

Brit.

/ˈmuːnɪnᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈmuninᵻs/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moony adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < moony adj. + -ness suffix.

The quality or condition of being moony (in various senses); spec. wistfulness, listlessness, dreamy distraction (cf. moony adj. 5).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun]

accidiaOE

accidie?c1225

lethargyc1380

faintness1398

lithernessc1425

listlesshedec1440

owlisthead1440

supinity1548

lustlessness1556

benumbedness1566

phlegm1578

apoplexy1589

acedia1607

torpor1607

drowsiness1611

torpidity1614

languishmentc1620

hebetude1621

acedy1623

inerty1623

supineness1640

listlessness1646

cadaveriety1651

inertitude1656

oscitation1656

torpulency1657

sopor1658

phlegmaticness1659

lethargicalness1664

torpidnessa1676

faineantisea1684

phlegmatism1688

vis inertiae1710

torpitude1713

moonery1764

donothingness1814

benumbment1817

inertia1821

languor1825

donothingism1839

Mondayishness1850

mooniness1852

mooning1857

fainéantisme1873

sog1874

Oblomovism1902

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > [noun] > state of

wanderingness1688

mooniness1852

1852 H. Melville Let. 17 July (1960) 153 The volume is welcome, as an antidote to the mooniness of some dreamers.

1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage I. xix. 216 Contact with her spirited him out of his mooniness.

1929 W. Deeping Roper's Row xiv. 149 The other girls at Fogson and George's observed her ‘mooniness’.

1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 55 The human countenance..of pallid mooniness.

1997 Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) 11 Aug. b1 His [style] was fired by poor-white disrepressed defiance, and to it he added mooniness, juvenility, niceness, hope, fuzz, hype and androgyny.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mooniness
释义	mooninessn. Brit. /ˈmuːnɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈmuninᵻs/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moony adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < moony adj. + -ness suffix. The quality or condition of being moony (in various senses); spec. wistfulness, listlessness, dreamy distraction (cf. moony adj. 5). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] accidiaOE accidie?c1225 lethargyc1380 faintness1398 lithernessc1425 listlesshedec1440 owlisthead1440 supinity1548 lustlessness1556 benumbedness1566 phlegm1578 apoplexy1589 acedia1607 torpor1607 drowsiness1611 torpidity1614 languishmentc1620 hebetude1621 acedy1623 inerty1623 supineness1640 listlessness1646 cadaveriety1651 inertitude1656 oscitation1656 torpulency1657 sopor1658 phlegmaticness1659 lethargicalness1664 torpidnessa1676 faineantisea1684 phlegmatism1688 vis inertiae1710 torpitude1713 moonery1764 donothingness1814 benumbment1817 inertia1821 languor1825 donothingism1839 Mondayishness1850 mooniness1852 mooning1857 fainéantisme1873 sog1874 Oblomovism1902 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > [noun] > state of wanderingness1688 mooniness1852 1852 H. Melville Let. 17 July (1960) 153 The volume is welcome, as an antidote to the mooniness of some dreamers. 1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage I. xix. 216 Contact with her spirited him out of his mooniness. 1929 W. Deeping Roper's Row xiv. 149 The other girls at Fogson and George's observed her ‘mooniness’. 1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 55 The human countenance..of pallid mooniness. 1997 Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) 11 Aug. b1 His [style] was fired by poor-white disrepressed defiance, and to it he added mooniness, juvenility, niceness, hope, fuzz, hype and androgyny. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1852
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