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looniness

  • a word derived from loony.
    loony
    adjective
    lunatic; insane.

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Any hope of Francis Ford Coppola reproducing the warmth of his best films was dashed by the sprawling “Megalopolis,” a Rome-as-New-York urban fantasia that, for all its delightful looniness, could have used some subway grit.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024

The party may pride itself on its looniness, but it still has to abide by electoral law.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023

"But I put my heart into it, I put my looniness into it obviously with the Tunes and committed to it. I'm excited for what people are actually going to see."

From Reuters ● Jul. 13, 2021

It’s not the craziness, the looniness of the idea that’s most distinctive, though elsewhere Taylor could be plenty whimsical or willfully perverse.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2018

He left; me to what he presumed to be my looniness and gave his attention to the eelgrass.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson