spooniness

Instantly Blair was angry; "spooniness" vanished in a flash; he did not speak for fully five minutes.

The Iron Woman Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

"Spoon" is just a designation we give to something whose spooniness is a coming together of various causes and conditions, which are themselves empty of inherent existence for the same reason: and the ways in which we break those down, talking about cause and effect, for example, or sense fields, is also subject to deconstruction.

Hegel on Buddhism 2007

Her shoulder was close to my lips, I looked at it and kissed it, She did not turn round, but Woloda remarked without raising his head, “What spooniness!”

Childhood 2003

All spooniness, all the preposterous idolization of some one who is just like anybody else, all love, (in the narrow sense in which the word is understood by novel-readers,) you feel, when you look back, are Veal.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

She avoided his love-making, by telling him any sort of spooniness revolted her.

The Lost Girl 1907

ALLBUTT-INNETT from reciprocating my increasing spooniness, her parents and brother are of an overwhelming cordiality, and repeatedly mention their ardent hope that I may become their guest up in the hills some time this autumn.

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

Californian drama are like our hackneyed friends, the Vikings, with a touch, if we may use the term, of spooniness.

Lost Leaders Andrew Lang 1878

Her shoulder was close to my lips, I looked at it and kissed it, She did not turn round, but Woloda remarked without raising his head, "What spooniness!"

Childhood Leo Tolstoy 1869