Anticness

An´tic`ness


n. 1. The quality of being antic.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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One wants to construe the sheer speed of his observation and insight--the anticness, the almost manic-depressive quality his writing can have--as a style reflecting the parvenu's unsettled status.
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