gee-whizzery

Noun

gee-whizzery

1. A response of enthusiasm towards surprising and/or technically impressive things.
   • Dicussing the recent history of American cultural studies, Ross finds that it has “rejected the more celebratory, native tradition of gee-whizzery,” by and large.2002, Alexander Doty, Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon, page 12
   • This shift toward the epideictic in popularizations of science—and the sensationalism and gee-whizzery that may result—is, then, not a punishment inflicted on science stories by disdainful or malicious journalists.2010, Jane Gregory, Steve Miller, Science in Public: Communication, Culture, and Credibility, page 214
2. Something that inspires gee-whizzery; something surprising and/or technically impressive.
   • The density of gee-whizzery in Media Player makes the interface and controls rather cluttered , as you see in Figure 10.1.2003, Chris Fehily, Windows XP, page 266
   • In any applied science it is important not to be seduced by 'gee-whizzery'. Every 'Gee Whiz!' should be accompanied by a 'So what?'2013, John Webster, Animal Husbandry Regained