"balloonacy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1864 February 20, The Daily Telegraph",
          "text": "We live in an age of balloonacy. Only a few weeks ago I sent you the account of M. Nadar and his 'Géant,” “the greatest balloon in the world;” now M. Eugène Godard has built an 'Aigle,' by the side of which the 'Giant' is a mere dwarf.",
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          "ref": "1865, Charles Robert Leslie, Tom Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, page 479",
          "text": "Horace Walpole was severe on this new whimsy of balloonacy, which was only chilled, not extinguished, by De Rosière's catastrophe.",
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          "ref": "1975, Machine Design, volume 47, numbers 24-29, page 20",
          "text": "In the milder case of \"balloonacy\" the enthusiast proposes essentially a modernized Hindenburg (8 million cu ft). In the most virulent form of the disease, however, the victim calls for fleets of 100 million cu ft helium whales.",
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        "An excessive mania for hot-air balloons."
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        "(nonce word) An excessive mania for hot-air balloons."
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