spooninessn.
1. Foolishness, silliness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun]
unwisdomc825
unredeeOE
egedec1175
unwitc1175
unwisdomnessa1200
dusileca1225
dusischipa1225
folly?c1225
kangschipe?c1225
unwitshipa1250
unwisenessa1340
cornardy1340
unwithead1340
lewdness1362
nicetyc1380
sotie1390
folitya1400
follinessa1400
foolheada1400
insipiencec1422
fondnessa1425
wanwita1425
cocardyc1430
foltry1440
jopperyc1440
folliheada1450
fonning?a1475
niceheada1475
foltheadc1475
folabilitya1529
daftness1552
foolageness1563
foppery1592
guckry1596
senselessness1606
coxcombry1608
goosery1642
ineptitude1656
fopicalness1660
fopperishness1683
insagacity1808
spoonery1824
spooniness1824
noodleism1830
addle-headedness1835
foolishment1852
insapiency1876
ineptness1877
goosiness1888
inepticality1923
sappiness1943
gormlessness1958
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 273 Abating a little spooniness about respect due to the audience,..it appears to us to be a most sensible piece of criticism.
2. The condition of being sentimentally in love.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > sentimental love-making > sentimental or silly fondness > condition of
spoonyism1852
spooniness1856
1856 D. G. Rossetti Let. June (1965) I. 303 I fear tin is out of question, as I think all contributors write for love or spooniness.
1864 E. Yates Broken to Harness I. v. 80 A sharp attack of what is commonly known as ‘spooniness’.
1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. ix. 185 A man in the last stage of spooniness will stand anything.
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