moonery en · NOUN
Etymology
From moon + -ery.
Meanings
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(dated, rare, uncountable) 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: