KOOKINESS Synonyms: 105 Similar and Opposite Words

kookiness

noun

as in idiocy

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Recent Examples of kookiness The beloved British artist David Hockney, who died last week at the age of 88, is celebrated for his vibrant paintings, his innovative techniques, and his joyful kookiness. — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 15 June 2026 Often, though, the band drops the hauteur to reveal a surprising kind of kookiness. — Jesse Dorris, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026 The friendship between these two witches is the core of this whole story, and the way that Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande perform it is what made the first movie work, despite the all-surrounding kookiness of Wicked. — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025

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Noun

There's always been an element of complete idiocy in the culture.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Forty years on, Spy magazine is best remembered, not unjustly, as the first entity to call out Trump for his tackiness, villainy, and arrant idiocy.

— David Kamp, Air Mail, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of idiocy

Noun

Early on, Sakurai exploits the inherent absurdity of telling a story populated by so many ludicrous characters.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Unlike Gregor Samsa who is confined to his room after transforming into a huge insect, the protagonist still has to go to work, a dark and bleak absurdity that lays bare the alienation, isolation, and hypocrisy of modern life.

— Deadline, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of absurdity

Noun

For Bob, 56 years old at the time, this was not an isolated act of concert-going lunacy.

— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026
Games and traditions alike were severely altered or outright shut down as a result of the pandemic and its accompanying lunacy, and the Florida Gators' football program especially felt the brunt of this.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of lunacy

Noun

But the flight to extremism, and the metastasizing inanity, is a two-party problem, and those of us who are Democrats and who care about the importance of regrowing the dormant (if not dead) political center have an obligation to try to do something about it.

— Jeffrey Robbins, Boston Herald, 4 May 2026
The post-liberals stand for cruelty and inanity, but Brooks can’t admit to standing for much of anything at all.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026

Definition of inanity

Noun

That sentence would have sounded like insanity a few decades ago, but in the strange world of Hollywood in the 2020s, weirder might really be better.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2026
So this is just a build-up, and there is such insanity coming.

— Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of insanity

Noun

Use these Prime Day leftovers as a chance to restock cleaning essentials before the holiday hosting craziness begins.

— Francesca Krempa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Oct. 2026
Jacksonville has a successful Triple-A franchise, the Jumbo Shrimp, that won its league last year, bringing fun theme nights, quirky mascots and between-inning craziness.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of craziness

Noun

There are definitely laughs in Maddie’s Secret, but the point of the movie is almost to get beyond them, to the place where naive hokum could yield moments of inexplicable resonance.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 19 June 2026
At Pasadena Playhouse, where a revival of the 1947 musical is occurring, some of the audience may already have a different miracle in mind, unrelated to any mystical Scottish hokum coming up in the plot.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 27 May 2026

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