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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(slang) The state or quality of being a kook; eccentricity, weirdness..
[…] Paul Zindel aroused the hope that he might be a playwright in the Williams mode, one who could cast a kindly light in the dark corners of twisted souls. That is precisely the hope dashed by his latest play, The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild. Here he is simply huckstering kookdom for cheap laughs, and not producing many of them at that.
Inasmuch as I answered you in as much detail as is humanly possible, and you elided all of the answer, it would appear you are just resorting to kookdom now.
Use kookdom when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Kookdom means (slang) The state or quality of being a kook; eccentricity, weirdness..
Common synonyms include kookery, kookiness, kookishness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] Paul Zindel aroused the hope that he might be a playwright in the Williams mode, one who could cast a kindly light in the dark corners of twisted souls. That is precisely the hope dashed by his latest play, The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild. Here he is simply huckstering kookdom for cheap laughs, and not producing many of them at that.
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