newfangleness

English

Etymology

From Middle English newfangelnesse, newfongilnes, from Old English *nīwefangelnes (compare Old English underfangelnes), equivalent to new- +‎ fangle +‎ -ness.

Noun

newfangleness (uncountable)

Obsolete form of newfangledness.
- 1387, Chaucer, “v. 609”, in The Squire's Tale‎:
  ...thus seyn men, as I gesse. Men loven of propre kynde newefangelnesse
- 1586, Maitland, Quarto Manuscript‎:
  To weir all thing that sinne provoikis / And all for newfangilnes of geir.

References

newfangleness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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