单词 | crankery |
释义 | crankeryn. The characteristics of a ‘crank’; crack-brainedness, enthusiastic eccentricity. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity fantasticalness1581 fantasticality1592 eccentricity1657 fantasticness1661 out-of-the-wayness1800 nuttiness1865 crankiness1870 crankism1882 crankery1884 faddishness1884 faddism1885 crankness1890 pottiness1933 wackiness1941 offbeatness1960 kookiness1962 1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 17 Oct. 15/3 Crankery ranges all the way from dangerous approach to insanity, to the one-idead fanatics in pseudo-scientific research [etc.]. 1890 Sat. Rev. 19 Apr. 481/2 The thoughts and words of a ‘crank’, often very amusing and interesting in themselves, and as a study of crankery. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1884 |
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