cobwebbery

cobwebbery means A mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why “cobwebbery” is a great word

A mass of cobwebs, or any intricate yet insubstantial and obscuring accumulation. It derives from 'cobweb' (from Middle English *coppe*, 'spider,' + *web*) and the collective suffix *-ery*, first attested in 1837. Unlike a 'labyrinth,' which implies a deliberate and formidable architecture, or 'intricacy,' which denotes admirable complexity, cobwebbery is the delicate, negligent accretion of the forgotten. It is the ghost-grey veil over an attic window, the tangled logic of a half-remembered dream, and the faint, filamentous doubts that cloud a once-certain conviction—the beautiful, useless lacework of neglect.

Etymology

From cobweb + -ery.

noun

A mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy.“When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?”