Word.ws English Dictionary

geekishness

geekishness noun: the state of being geekish.

Noun

geekishness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being geekish.
    • I would just like to comment on the present epidemic of geekishness which is pervading the ranks of freshmen here at the college. I should correct myself and say that this rare disease seems to have been an integral aspect of the class of '81 ever since it set foot in this once geek-free...1978 November 14, Jeff Boylan, “Excerpts”, in Bob Wasserman, editor, The Tech, volume 98, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2014, page 1

Origin of geekishness

From geekish + -ness.

Questions about geekishness

What does geekishness mean?
Geekishness means the state of being geekish.
What part of speech is geekishness?
Geekishness is a noun.

Words near geekishness in the dictionary

  1. geeking
  2. geeking out
  3. geeking someone's head up
  4. geekish
  5. geekishly
  6. geekishness
  7. geekism
  8. geekisms
  9. geekitude
  10. geekless
  11. geeklet

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: geekishness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “geekishness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/geekishness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.