mooniness

Ms. Rockburne's rhetorical weakness for New Age mooniness is, thankfully, one of the strengths of her art.

Too Restless for the Rules Richard B. Woodward 2011

Beyond my own personal mooniness, I'm starting to think that internet dating has reduced all of our chances of real life romantic encounters.

Pamela Newton: Is Internet Dating the Death of Romance? 2009

And her heroine's vague sense of regret isn't a real issue, it's just a spoiled girl's mooniness.

Jeremy Gerard: The Belles of Amherst 2008

At the first murmur she had decided that he was nothing but a college boy — Edith was twenty-two, and anyhow, this dance, first of its kind since the war, was reminding her, with the accelerating rhythm of its associations, of something else — of another dance and another man, a man for whom her feelings had been little more than a sad-eyed, adolescent mooniness.

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

I know of no book which displays the mooniness of youth with more feeling and sympathy than

Prejudices : first series, 1919

But though he was welcomed in a general way there was obviously no heartiness in Roscoe's feeling toward him -- there was even perceptible a tendency on his son's part to think that Benjamin, as he moped about the house in adolescent mooniness, was somewhat in the way.

Tales of the Jazz Age 1918

Lagerlöf and her old maid's mooniness, Bernstein, Molnar and company and their out-worn tricks -- but I pile up no more names.

A Book of Prefaces 1918

At the first murmur she had decided that he was nothing but a college boy -- Edith was twenty-two, and anyhow, this dance, first of its kind since the war, was reminding her, with the accelerating rhythm of its associations, of something else -- of another dance and another man, a man for whom her feelings had been little more than a sad-eyed, adolescent mooniness.

Tales of the Jazz Age 1918

Contact with her spirited him out of his mooniness.

The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

Contact with her spirited him out of his mooniness.

The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868