gaddishness

English

Etymology

gaddish +‎ -ness

Noun

gaddishness (uncountable)

  1. (nonce word) Quality of being gaddish.
    • 1693-1694, Robert Leighton, A Practical Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Peter
      Elders, be such in grave and pious carriage, whatsoever be your years; for young men may be so, and, possibly, gray hairs may have nothing under them but gaddishness and folly many years old, habituated and inveterate ungodliness!
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