Obs. rare. [f. ANTIC a. + -NESS.] The quality of being antic; grotesqueness, oddity.

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1638.  Ford, Fancies, IV. ii. A port of humorous antickness in carriage.

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1655.  Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. 108. This Arch-Bishop was an excellent Antiquarie (without any Anticknesse).

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