dottiness

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For another thing, her mother is played by Jane Krakowski, with a dottiness that can curdle into malice, as she badgers her older daughter about getting married and moving out.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2019

The dialogue aspires to a kind of farcical, dreamlike dottiness, and once or twice I did feel the prudish grimace that had settled on my face cracking with something approaching mild amusement.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2011

In the interview he joked a half-dozen times about his impending dottiness and mortality.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2010

Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, maybe John Cleese -- that's what people like in British films, the dottiness.

From Reuters • May 18, 2010

"Why should all England have gone dotty on the mere subject of dottiness?"

From The Ball and the Cross by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)