单词 | fantasticality |
释义 | fantasticalityn. a. Fantastical character or quality; eccentricity, grotesqueness, oddity. 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 1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. iii, An epitome of fantasticality. 1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe iii. sig. D4v, Our Lords are as farr beyond them..for person..as they are beyond ours for phantasticallitie. 1824 New Monthly Mag. 12 154 A little fantasticality here and there, but upon the whole exquisite! 1878 T. Sinclair Mount 275 He is not quite sure..about the fantasticality of these etymologies. b. concr. and quasi-concr. Something that is fantastical; a crotchet, whim. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim fantasya1450 wantonness1531 humour1533 worm?a1534 will1542 toy?1545 whey-worm1548 wild worm1548 freak1563 crotchet1573 fancy1579 whim-wham1580 whirligig1589 caper1592 megrim1593 spleen1594 kicksey-winsey1599 fegary1600 humorousness1604 curiosity1605 conundrum1607 whimsy1607 windmill1612 buzza1616 capriccioa1616 quirka1616 flama1625 maggota1625 fantasticality1631 capruch1634 gimcrack1639 whimseycado1654 caprich1656 excursion1662 frisk1665 caprice1673 fita1680 grub1681 fantasque1697 whim1697 frolic1711 flight1717 whigmaleery1730 vagary1753 maddock1787 kink1803 fizgig1824 fad1834 whimmery1837 fantod1839 brain crack1853 whimsy-whamsy1871 tic1896 tick1900 1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xv. §3. 263 The Fantasticalites of their bodyes. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 311 The Song he [sc. Burns] sings is not of fantasticalities. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. i. iii. 32 Ceremonials, and troublesome fantasticalities. 1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. vii. 284 The graceful fantasticalities of Lyly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2013). < n.1592 |
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