The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clownishness \Clown"ish*ness\, n. The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.
That plainness which the alamode people call
clownishness.
--Locke.
Wiktionary
n. the state of being clownish
Usage examples of "clownishness".
Just as he smirks and rolls his eyes in her actual presence, so he puts on apathetic and unescapable clownishness when he essays to dissect her in the privacy of the laboratory.
But after a while he realized that these people were laughing not at him but at a pack of dwarfish acrobats who were attempting with deliberate clownishness to form a human pyramid, and he grew less uneasy.
But he belonged to a class which, among all classes in the world, is distinguished by native clownishness and by unpliability to novel circumstance.
Charla, with a single vulgar tweak, had reduced him to clownishness, had turned consternation into farce, had shown, symbolically, her ability to destroy his pride, dignity and manhood at her option.
It seemed to me that nature, less unconventional than the old poets, must make use almost exclusively of the elements common to the family, and I was unable to credit her with enough power of invention to construct, out of materials analogous to those that composed a fool and clod, a lofty mind without the least strain of clownishness, a saint unsoiled by any brutality.