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nerdiness

nerdiness noun: the quality of being nerdy.

Noun

nerdiness (uncountable)

  1. the quality of being nerdy
    • [A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28

Origin of nerdiness

From nerdy + -ness.

Questions about nerdiness

What does nerdiness mean?
Nerdiness means the quality of being nerdy.
What part of speech is nerdiness?
Nerdiness is a noun.

Words near nerdiness in the dictionary

  1. nerdified
  2. nerdifies
  3. nerdify
  4. nerdifying
  5. nerdily
  6. nerdiness
  7. nerding out
  8. nerdish
  9. nerdishly
  10. nerdishness
  11. nerdism

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