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- noun the state of being
fey
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Examples
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For all the feyness of her behavior at first, Anna is so original, and poignantly beautiful, that she could inspire hope in a heart of stone.
Surprise: A Newly Exhilarating 'X-Men' Joe Morgenstern 2011
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The Ballets Russes put ambiguity on a reconstituted map, and though there would always be something of the green carnation about these artists, as ballet professionals they trumped feyness with athleticism and married androgyny to paganism, an achievement that we now see lighting the way for every other aspect of popular culture.
Diaghilev: Lord of the dance Andrew O'Hagan 2010
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Part of me wants to take a crack here at the feyness of Voldemort in GoF the Movie, but eh.
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He rides and walks with exaggerated feyness, wearing a tight white leather jacket and what look like rust-red velvet pants that have, like, gold buttons all up the sides.
Nick Antosca: 3:10 to Yuma: Not as Good as Brokeback Mountain, but Easily as Gay 2008
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Her feyness and gift of prophecy had always made people shy away from her.
Shield of Thunder Gemmell, David 2006
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Related to it is the appearance in some stories of emotion wrapped in cuteness, or feyness, which may be a method, as you say, to distance the emotion by dressing it up here in a whimsical cleverness instead of in irony.
IN WHICH HEROES STUMBLE TEV 2005
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But the outer naïvety of Mr. Gabriadze's ingratiating allegory reveals no substance within its feyness.
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The anthropomorphism occasionally verges on feyness ...
Horse Heaven: Summary and book reviews of Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley. 2000
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There are other degrees of feyness, as of punishment, besides the capital; and I was now led by my good spirits into an adventure which I relate in the interest of future donkey-drivers.
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There are other degrees of feyness, as of punishment, besides the capital; and I was now led by my good spirits into an adventure which I relate in the interest of future donkey-drivers.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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