单词 | viewiness |
释义 | viewinessn. The state or quality of being viewy (viewy adj. 1a); tendency to adopt speculative or unsubstantiated views. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > [noun] > tendency towards speculativeness1727 viewiness1850 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > quality of conceitedness1589 fancifulness1667 maggot1701 visionarinessc1806 fantasticalness1847 viewiness1850 1850 Rambler Sept. 243 Hence the rise and spread of this modern ‘viewiness’ of ours. 1860 Guardian 23 May 473/1 It..is written with characteristic tendency to overgeneralisation and viewiness. 1880 Athenæum 2 Oct. 429/1 Viewiness is bad, no doubt, but it is still worse to be without views. 1923 A. W. Ward in A. W. Ward & G. P. Gooch Cambr. Hist. Brit. Foreign Policy II. iii. 331 His great experience and stern objectivity..had so often corrected the sanguine viewiness of Pitt. 1980 I. Ellis Seven Against Christ ii. 58 That also explained the viewiness and generalised argument of the article. 2005 W. D. Shaw Babel & Ivory Tower viii. 162 The mere viewiness which builds castles in the air. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1850 |
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