fantasticality

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To a certain degree you accept and conceive of facts truthfully, but beyond this a mere fantasticality rules; and having got enough of grandeur, the senses played themselves false.

From Suburban Sketches by Howells, William Dean

"Yes," replied the dead voice of the woman without an inflection to suggest that she felt the fantasticality of her statement.

From The Club of Queer Trades by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Frédéric's great force was his extravagance, his fantasticality; and the stage of the Rue de Richelieu was a trifle too academic.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

We have not even the power over observers which comes from the fantasticality of an Englishman when he discards the conventional dress.

From The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells, William Dean

No affectation, fantasticality, or distortion, dwelt in him; no shadow of cant.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III by Lodge, Henry Cabot