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n. - Having or breaking into thin crisp fragments; Informal terms for insanity.

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  • It’s always had a certain flakiness, and I never had the patience to track it down.
  • The whole affair requires a Zen master's presence of mind to achieve the ideal separation of layers - what we civilians call flakiness.
  • Cutting stories about O'Neill's "flakiness" began to appear in the conservative press.
  • He chills the butter with the flour for flakiness!
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