All zaniness synonyms

noun zaniness

• joyfulness — full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
• levity — lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness.
• lightness — the state or quality of being light or illuminated.
• playfulness — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
• pleasantry — good-humored teasing; banter.
• raillery — good-humored ridicule; banter.
• ridiculousness — causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.
• whimsy — capricious humor or disposition; extravagant, fanciful, or excessively playful expression: a play with lots of whimsy.
• wisecrack — a smart or facetious remark.
• high spirits — lively or boisterous mood
• joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
• kidding — Informal. a child or young person.
• bee — A bee is an insect with a yellow-and-black striped body that makes a buzzing noise as it flies. Bees make honey, and can sting.
• bent — Bent is the past tense and past participle of bend.
• bias — Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing.
• caprice — A caprice is an unexpected action or decision which has no strong reason or purpose.
• character — The character of a person or place consists of all the qualities they have that make them distinct from other people or places.
• complexion — When you refer to someone's complexion, you are referring to the natural colour or condition of the skin on their face.
• conceit — Conceit is very great pride in your abilities or achievements that other people feel is too great.
• disposition — the predominant or prevailing tendency of one's spirits; natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude: a girl with a pleasant disposition.
• fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
• individualism — a social theory advocating the liberty, rights, or independent action of the individual.
• individuality — the particular character, or aggregate of qualities, that distinguishes one person or thing from others; sole and personal nature: a person of marked individuality.
• makeup — facial cosmetics, as eye shadow or lipstick.
• mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
• nature — has the X nature
• notion — a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something: a notion of how something should be done.
• personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
• propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
• quirk — a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks.
• strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
• temper — a particular state of mind or feelings.
• tone — (Theobald) Wolfe, 1763–98, Irish nationalist and martyr for independence.
• vagary — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
• vein — one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
• whim — an odd or capricious notion or desire; a sudden or freakish fancy: a sudden whim to take a midnight walk.
• frame of mind — mental state
• wackiness — odd or irrational; crazy: They had some wacky plan for selling more books.
• silliness — weak-minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish: a silly writer.
• craziness — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
• wildness — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
• eccentricity — an oddity or peculiarity, as of conduct: an interesting man, known for his eccentricities.
• oddness — differing in nature from what is ordinary, usual, or expected: an odd choice.
• strangeness — the quality or condition of being strange.
• foolishness — resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered; unwise: a foolish action, a foolish speech.
• absurdity — the quality or state of being absurd; nonsense
• idiocy — utterly senseless or foolish behavior; a stupid or foolish act, statement, etc.: All this talk of zombies coming to attack us is pure idiocy.
• insanity — the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind. Synonyms: dementia, lunacy, madness, craziness, mania, aberration.
• lunacy — insanity; mental disorder.
• madness — the state of being mad; insanity.