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headiness|ˈhɛdɪnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being heady.
1. Rashness, hastiness, precipitancy; unruliness, self-will, obstinacy, headstrongness.
1475Bk. Noblesse 79 Usid after his owne wilfulnesse and hedinesse and without counceile. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Ded., Of witlesse headinesse in iudging, or of heedelesse hardinesse in condemning. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 414 The rationalist, who complains so loudly of the headiness and hastiness of zeal. 1865W. G. Palgrave Arabia I. 85 Famous for headiness and the spirit of contradiction.
2. The quality of going to the head; intoxicating quality.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 65 b, He was not able to beare his drinke nor resist the least headinesse and strength thereof. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. i. x. §2 (1669) 56/1 Water to dash this strong wine of joy, and take away its headiness. |