feyness
noun [ U ] literary often disapproving uk/ˈfeɪ.nəs/ us/ˈfeɪ.nəs/
神秘古怪;故弄玄虚
the quality of being mysterious and strange, or trying to appear like this
The show is saved from feyness by its inventiveness and the bleakness of its ending. 该剧因其新颖的创意和凄凉的结局才免于令人感觉故弄玄虚。
With irritating feyness, Jack attributes mystic powers to the legend.
See: fey
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- She was fanciful and romantic, sometimes to the point of feyness.
- Everything they do has a kind of feyness.
- The risk is that the group's feyness may be a way of not talking about what really matters.