Moonery
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The conduct of one who moons. dated, rare, uncountable
"[…] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?"
Example
More examples"[…] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?"
Etymology
From moon + -ery.
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