Also 7 phan-. [f. prec. + -ITY.] Fantastical character or quality; eccentricity, grotesqueness, oddity.
1592. G. Harvey, Four Lett., iii. An Image of Idlenes, an Epitome of fantasticalitie; a Mirrour of Vanitie.
1606. Sir Gyles Goosecappe, III. i., in Bullen, O. Pl. (1884), III. 43. Our Lords are as farr beyond them yfaith, for person, and Courtshippe, as they are beyond ours for phantasticallitie.
1824. New Monthly Mag., XII. 154. A little fantasticality here and there, but upon the whole exquisite!
1878. T. Sinclair, Mount, 275. He is not quite sure, however, in the end, about the fantasticality of these etymologies.
b. concr. and quasi-concr. Something that is fantastical; a crotchet, whim.
1631. R. H., Arraignm. Whole Creature, xv. § 3. 263. The Fantasticalites of their bodyes.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes (1858), 329. The Song he [Burns] sings is not of fantasticalities; it is of a thing felt, really there; the prime merit of this, as of all in him, and of his Life generally, is truth.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt. (1865), I. I. iii. 23. Ceremonials, and troublesome fantasticalities.
1887. Saintsbury, Hist. Elizab. Lit., vii. 284. The graceful fantasticalities of Lyly.
