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  • noun The state or quality of being spacy.

Etymologies

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From spacy +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • ●Difficulty with mathematics ●Easily distracted ●Forgetfulness (primarily short-term) ●Attention deficit ●Inability to focus vision and attention ●Inability to cope with fast-paced tasks ●Overall feeling of "spaciness" or "brainfog" Motor Disturbances: ●Loss of muscular coordination ●Muscle weakness ●Muscle twitching ●Loss of balance and clumsiness Overload phenomena: ●hypersensitivities to light, sound motion, odors ●Inability to block out background noise and focus on on conversation ●Informational overload with inability to multi-task ●Motor overload, with staggering and weakness ●dizziness ●numbness ●tinnitus

    WN.com - Articles related to Burger King Sees EPS Hit Due to Currency 2010

  • "spaciness" after being in stores with fluorescent lighting for any amount of time, but since January 2000 I've been working under them (whereas before I worked at home) and I've experienced such difficulty concentrating, remembering, and generally, just not feeling well.

    Tech Beat - BusinessWeek 2009

  • Not sure if dizziness was the intended effect in these games, but hey, a small dose of spaciness in your day can't be all that bad. $250, nintendo.com

    Now You're Playing With 3-D Power 2011

  • Somehow Emin goes beyond; with her, it's as if Warhol and Valerie Solanas were rolled into the same person, but minus his posture of obliquity and spaciness, minus the violent fixity of her political focus.

    Tracey Emin: 'What you see is what I am' 2011

  • Speaking of spaciness, check out the Carnival of Space #75 at Lounge of the Lab Lemming!

    Archive 2008-10-19 Nicole 2008

  • Now that we're getting a whole slew of tie-in issues, though, more outer-spaciness is called for to maintain an optimal balance.

    Archive 2009-11-15 2009

  • That hasn't been too much of a problem up to now, since the more earthbound tie-in miniseries have nicely balanced the straight-up outer-spaciness of Green Lantern Corps and starting with issue #45 Green Lantern.

    Archive 2009-11-15 2009

  • -- We knew Manningham's spaciness would cost us at some point.

    Greg Hanlon: The Taste of Defeat: Panthers 41 - Giants 9 2009

  • Being on the wrong end of a Hollywood No can be devastating for bizzers, but many L.A. civilians face a similar brew of enthusiasm, spaciness and rudeness in social situations.

    Michael Sigman: 'No' Hollywood Style 2009

  • Now I feel bad for making fun of her spaciness, although I maintain that it could be a pre-accident condition.

    Jane McGivney: Make It Work: We'll Meet Again, on Mars 2008

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