Cleverality
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 cleverness Ireland, uncountable
"I protest, it is to me the most difficult of things to write to one of your female - geniuses — there is a certain degree of cleverality (if I may so call it), an easy kind of derangement of periods, a gentleman-like — fashionable - careless — see-saw of dialogue — which I know no more of than you do of cruelty."
Example
More examples"I protest, it is to me the most difficult of things to write to one of your female - geniuses — there is a certain degree of cleverality (if I may so call it), an easy kind of derangement of periods, a gentleman-like — fashionable - careless — see-saw of dialogue — which I know no more of than you do of cruelty."
Etymology
Formed irregularly as clever + -ality on the pattern of comicality and other such terms.
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