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nerdishness

nerdishness noun: the state or quality of being nerdish.

Noun

nerdishness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being nerdish.
    • That’s always been the problem for sticklers, you see. The feeling of isolation. The feeling of nerdishness. One solitary obsessive, feebly armed with an apostrophe on a stick, will never have the nerve to demonstrate outside Warner Brothers on the issue of Two Weeks Notice.2003 November 6, Lynne Truss, “Introduction – The Seventh Sense”, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, London: Profile Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 29
    Synonyms:
    nerdery

Synonyms of nerdishness

Origin of nerdishness

From nerdish + -ness.

Questions about nerdishness

What does nerdishness mean?
Nerdishness means the state or quality of being nerdish.
What part of speech is nerdishness?
Nerdishness is a noun.

Words near nerdishness in the dictionary

  1. nerdily
  2. nerdiness
  3. nerding out
  4. nerdish
  5. nerdishly
  6. nerdishness
  7. nerdism
  8. nerdisms
  9. nerdistan
  10. nerdistans
  11. nerditude

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