[f. VIEWY a.] The state or quality of being viewy; tendency to speculative or unpractical views.
1852. J. H. Newman, Scope Univ. Educ., Pref. (1859), p. xxi. That spurious philosophism, which shows itself in what, for want of a word, I may call ‘viewiness.’
1860. Guardian, 23 May, 473/1. It exhibits the broad views of the writer, of course, and is written with characteristic tendency to overgeneralisation and viewiness.
1880. Athenæum, 2 Oct., 429/1. Viewiness is bad, no doubt, but it is still worse to be without views.
