Lackadaisicality

[muckefuck]

During our lazy weekend (a non-trivial part of which was spent lounging on the back porch in pyjama pants), I wondered aloud to monshu what the noun form corresponding to louche would be. That is, is the quality of being louche louchité, louchesse, loucherie?

As it turns out, loucherie is the only one to be found in dictionaries, but it doesn't mean what you might expect. Louche is a descendent of Latin luscus "one-eyed", and although this sense is archaic in regard to the adjective, it's still very much alive in the derived verb loucher. Thus, loucherie is actually a synonym for strabisme.

I did find a few (i.e. two dozen) instances of louchité online with more-or-less the meaning I was looking for so I assume this would be understood in conversation in more-or-less the same way as, say, "assholity" would be in English

Comments

[come-to-think.livejournal.com]

Surely that should be "assholiness" -- or, in a philosophical context, "assholism".