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nerddom

nerddom is the alternative form of nerdom.

Meaning of nerdom

Noun

nerdom (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial, rare) The attitudes and behaviours of a nerd; nerdiness.
    • When she [Valerie Mahaffey] was 17 she fell in love with a schoolmate named Ben: 'Together, we pulled each other out of nerddom,' she said.1983 April 1, Nan Robertson, “Tigers or ‘top girls,’ Valerie Mahaffey adjusts”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2016
  2. (colloquial, rare) Nerds considered as a group.
    • I still chuckle at some of [the] jokes that we targeted to very narrow slices of nerdom.2009, Mark Dalrymple, “Foreword”, in Jack Nutting; Dave Mark; Jeff LaMarche, Learn Cocoa on the Mac (Books for Professionals by Professionals), [New York, N.Y.]: Apress, page xi

Questions about nerddom

What is nerddom the alternative form of?
Nerddom is the alternative form of nerdom.

Words near nerddom in the dictionary

  1. nerdboy
  2. nerdboys
  3. nerdbrain
  4. nerdbrains
  5. nerdcore
  6. nerddom
  7. nerded out
  8. nerderati
  9. nerdery
  10. nerdette
  11. nerdettes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nerddom (page history and authors); nerdom (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.

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