The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quixotry
Quixotry \Quix"ot*ry\ (kw[i^]ks"[o^]t*r[y^]), n. Quixotism; visionary schemes.
Wiktionary
quixotry
n. A wild, visionary idea, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.
Usage examples of "quixotry".
Let’s have no more quixotry, none of this deciding, all by your little self, who are the goodies and who are the baddies.
But there had been no attempts to molest or detain them: neither British nor German hesitated at any time to violate the neutrality of Turkish territorial waters, but by the strange quixotry of a tacit gentlemen's agreement hostilities between passing vessels and planes were almost unknown.
Now, through a mixture of romantic quixotry and sheer folly he had lost it all.
Given a choice—at least in my reading—I'm un-American enough to take quixotry over efficiency any day.