Zaniness

I enjoy zanyiness. It's a word that I like to use whenever I can find the opportunity and I definitely prefer it over what I thought was its synonym: wacky. I knew that wacky and zany were sort of the same, but I wondered what the difference is, even if slight.
The first thing I learned was that zany's first use is as a noun: "one who acts the buffoon to amuse others" wheras the adjective form is just a descriptor for somebody who acts like a zany.





This was the first picture I got when I image-searched zany, he's DJ zany, even if he doesn't look it



Wacky simply describes an eccentric or silly person. So, I guess the way I see it is a zany person might make more of a conscious effort to be funny and weird, wheras for a wacky person it just comes out naturally.



This wacky picture is far wackier than the zany picture is zany, especially that "stock photo" part, because I'm relatively sure that it's not a photograph, at least, I sincerely hope not.




I guess the main lesson to take from this post is that it would be grammatically correct to refer to somebody as a wacky zany. Are you now chock full of knowledge?