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pottiness|ˈpɒtɪnɪs|
[f. potty a. + -ness.]
The state or condition of being potty.
1933Wodehouse Heavy Weather iii. 47 It was not primarily his pottiness that led him to steal the Empress. 1935D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night v. 98 We shall all feel perfectly ghastly wondering..whether our own conversation doesn't sound a little potty. It's the pottiness, you know, that's so awful. 1957E. Hyams Into Dreams 250 He..got an impression of pottiness from the old politician's smile. 1974Times 17 Jan. 7/8 The dementia of children who threw themselves upon them [sc. a pop group] in an orgy of enslaved pottiness. 1976K. Bonfiglioli Something Nasty in Woodshed i. 15 This inability to see any flaws in oneself is a branch of pottiness. |