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bookiness

bookiness noun: the quality of being booky.

Noun

bookiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being booky.
    • This, it seems to me, is the essential for marriage happiness, rather than the matching up of trait with trait, bookiness with bookiness, sportiness with sportiness, as Cinderella's Prince matched foot with slipper.1952, Frances Bruce Strain, Love at the Threshold, page 178

Origin of bookiness

From booky + -ness.

Questions about bookiness

What does bookiness mean?
Bookiness means the quality of being booky.
What part of speech is bookiness?
Bookiness is a noun.

Words near bookiness in the dictionary

  1. bookhunters
  2. bookie
  3. bookier
  4. bookies
  5. bookiest
  6. bookiness
  7. booking
  8. booking away
  9. booking class
  10. booking classes
  11. booking hall

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