visionarinessn.
/ˈvɪʒn̩(ə)rɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈvɪʒəˌnɛrinᵻs/ 1. The quality of being visionary in respect of mind or views.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > quality of
conceitedness1589
fancifulness1667
maggot1701
visionarinessc1806
fantasticalness1847
viewiness1850
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > a vision > [noun] > visionary quality
visionarinessc1806
c1806 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. (1941) I. 286 That visionariness which results from a communion with the unworldliness of nature.
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (ed. 3) III. 72 Visionariness seems the tendency of the German;..fanaticism of the French.
1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 104 The conceptive faculty delights at times in half-formed and hazy visionariness.
1840 T. De Quincey Style: No. III in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 521/1 Books..labouring with the same two opposite defects..dulness from absolute monotony, and visionariness from the aërial texture of the speculations.
1880 W. Pater Coleridge in Wks. (1901) V. 83 A kind of languid visionariness, deep-seated in the very constitution of the ‘narcotist’.
2. The quality of being visionary in respect of reality, fulfilment, or practical value.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [noun]
righteousnesseOE
snoterc950
witnessc950
wisdomOE
insightc1175
witc1175
smeighnessc1200
sleighta1300
witternessa1300
inwitc1305
wittiheadc1315
wisenessc1320
witterheda1325
wisehede1340
slyness1357
sapience1377
wisdomhood138.
prudencea1382
sapienta1400
sentencec1400
advice?a1439
sophyc1440
profunditya1500
wittiness1543
Minerva1601
depth1605
Sophia1649
visionariness1817
1817 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform Introd. 317 Annuality—with all its wildness and visionariness..would be far less intolerable.
1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 42 98 He..wrote instantly,..against the new alarmist, pledging his own head upon the visionariness of his alarms.
1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. i. 16 This project of a Universal Empire..may..justly be charged with utter visionariness.
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