spac´- i|ness

spac´- i|ness
spac|y «SPAY see», adjective, spac|i|er, spac|i|est. Slang.
1. dazed; stupefied; dreamy: »

A flautist was performing before a couple of hundred students … some giving merely spacy attention, some with acute professional eyes on a colleague (Herbert Gold).

2. unconventional; eccentric: »

Her former boy friends generally describe her as nutty, spacy, neurotic or dim (Time).

Also, spacey.
spac´- i|ness, noun.

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  • spac|y — «SPAY see», adjective, spac|i|er, spac|i|est. Slang. 1. dazed; stupefied; dreamy: »A flautist was performing before a couple of hundred students … some giving merely spacy attention, some with acute professional eyes on a colleague (Herbert Gol …   Useful english dictionary

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  • spaciness — spac·i·ness …   English syllables

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