[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The state or quality of being cranky or crazy.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. I. (1873), 235. There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
1890. Spectator, 8 Feb., 193/2. The reputation for ‘crankiness’ and wrong-headedness which that able historical writer [Goldwin Smith] has gained in British North America.
