2. Noun. The quality or degree of having a nutty aspect; craziness or zaniness. ¹
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Definition of Nuttiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nuttiness
Literary usage of Nuttiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"ience alone CT awhile, aix essays which make up the volume are t'ie fruit of
twenty years' meditation, and they ™*»e the nuttiness of age about them. ..."
2. Tennyson, His Art and Relation to Modern Life by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1894)
"The six essays which make up the volume are the ope fruit of twenty years'
meditation, and they have the ' nuttiness' of age about them. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1865)
"In the height of summer, a dappled bay; towards the autumnal equinox, a tendency
to nuttiness; then a husky bristle of deepest brown flaked with hairs of ..."
4. Useful wild plants of the United States and Canada by Charles Francis Saunders (1920)
"In taste it is rather flat but with a suggestion of nuttiness that becomes
distinctly agreeable even to some white palates. Judging from my own experience ..."
5. The Home Maker by Jane Cunningham Croly (1889)
"... and the oil, and the nuttiness are combined. You can swallow down one after
another of the little fatty oval purple plums cleaving off in your mouth ..."
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