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What is the noun for quixotic?

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quixotism
  1. That form of delusion which leads to extravagant and absurd undertakings or sacrifices in obedience to a morbidly romantic ideal of duty or honor, as illustrated by the exploits of Don Quixote in knight-errantry.
  2. Quixotry.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “What foolish infatuation had ever suggested to me the quixotism of these wanderings?”
      “For in that character there has dawned a sort of quixotism which never used to be there.”
      “But back of Jonas's judgment was that of Andrew, whose weakness was quixotism.”
quixotry
  1. A wild, visionary idea, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This was an opportune moment to address the issue of the oppression of animals, until then catalogued in the annals of quixotry, as a serious moral problem.”
      “Perhaps the explanation of Picasso's quixotry can be found in something he said to the writer Giovanni Papini in 1952 Todayas, as you know, I am famous, I am rich.”
      “She knew that her brother was capable of any quixotry, any excess.”
quixotisms
quixotries
  1. plural of quixotry
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