moonery

noun

moonery

noun

Etymology From moon + -ery.

1

Dated, Rare The conduct of one who moons.

[…] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia:

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