fantasticalnessn.
The quality, condition, or fact of being fantastical.† 1. The condition of being subject to phantasms.† 4. Capriciousness, whimsicality; waywardness.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > hallucination or hallucinosis
fantasticalness1547
hallucination1646
blue devils1798
Corybantiasm1847
Corybantism1882
hallucinosis1905
phoneme1905
parablepsy1934
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. f. xxixv, Fantasticalnes, or by collusion, or illusions of the deuyll.
2. Addiction to strange fancies; eccentricity, oddity; an instance of this.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > deviation from normal standards of behaviour
fantasticnessc1550
irregularship1577
fantasticalness1581
inconformity1594
irregularity1598
unconformitya1600
excess1709
eccentricity1794
quizziness1798
unconventionality1854
unconventionalism1868
deviation1912
deviance1944
deviancy1954
way-outness1961
quirkiness1971
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
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xlv. 301 Is that point in suspition of any noueltie or fantasticallnes to haue wymen learned?
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 266 Their..phantasticalnesse in apparall.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lviii. 229 Six little Girls danced with six of the oldest men..which seemed to us a very pretty fantasticalness.
c1698 J. Locke Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding §34 We are taught to cloath our minds..after the fashion in vogue, and it is accounted fantasticalness..not to do so.
1821 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 39 Their mother was plainly crazed with hypochondriacism and fantasticalness.
a1864 N. Hawthorne Septimius Felton (1872) 157 The fantasticalness of his present pursuit.
3. Absurd unreality.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > quality of
conceitedness1589
fancifulness1667
maggot1701
visionarinessc1806
fantasticalness1847
viewiness1850
1847 T. De Quincey Schlosser's Lit. Hist. in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 580/2 Chloes, and Corydons—names that..proclaim the fantasticalness of the life with which they are..connected.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness
giddinessa1290
lightnessc1384
gerishnessa1513
fantasticnessc1550
unstaidnessa1557
fantasticalness1583
triflingnessa1586
spleen1598
capriciousness1607
skittishness1607
humorousness1611
wavinga1628
volageness1633
arbitrariness1643
garishness1649
legerity1652
mercury1653
volatility1655
caprich1656
humoursomeness1662
hoity-toity1668
jollity1670
unaccountableness1676
freak1678
whimsya1680
featheriness1689
toysomeness1697
caprice1711
whimsicalness1715
flirtation1718
whima1721
flightiness1747
whimsicality1761
giggishness1781
fancifulness1818
hoity-toityness1820
whifflery1835
crotchetiness1837
quirkiness1870
faddishness1884
faddism1885
vagarity1886
erraticism1889
whimsiness1909
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deut. xxiii. 139 The wicked Fantasticalnesse of men in worshipping the sunne.
1678 T. Otway Friendship in Fashion iv. 45 The fantasticalness of your Appetite.
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