[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being fanciful.
1667. H. More, Divine Dialogues, IV. xxiv. (1713), 347. Some … suspecting such Interpretations of overmuch Phancifulness.
1677. Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, II. v. 168. Transported with too much fancifulness.
1818. Bp. Horne’s Wks. (ed. 2), I. Pref. p. xi. Charges him [the bishop] with fancifulness and presumption.
1857. W. Collins, Dead Secret, V. iii. (1861), 218. She played some of Mr. Frankland’s favourite airs, with a certain union of feeling and fancifulness in her execution of the music, which seemed to blend the charm of her own disposition with the charm of the melodies which sprang into life under her touch.
