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franticness|ˈfræntɪknɪs| [f. as prec. + -ness.] The state or condition of being frantic.
a1529Skelton Sp. Parrot 411 Of frantycknes and folysshnes, Whyche ys the grett state? 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. clxxii. 1568 Men bee driuen with a certaine furie or frentikenesse. 1664Pepys Diary 15 Aug., Her kinswoman, who it seems is sickly even to frantiqueness sometimes. 1718Entertainer No. 21 ⁋6 Frantickness, and a Start of Passion, they deify'd as the Extremity of Courage and Resolution. 1878M. W. Hungerford Molly Bawn (1893) 139 You have all the franticness to yourself. |