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teacherness

teacherness noun: the quality of being a teacher who is proficient at teaching.

Noun

teacherness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being a teacher who is proficient at teaching
    • Methods of staffing and staff utilization in most public schools suggest that there is a quality—called "teacherness," perhaps—which, when a person becomes a teacher, overrides all his individuating qualities.1972, Rodney Pennell Smith, Richard A. Dempsey, Differentiated staffing, page 2
    • How to motivate and uplift the pupils? It is indeed here that the "teacherness" of a teacher is at least; it is here that his individuality asserts.1990, S. K. Aggarwal, Investigative Journalism in India, page 54

Origin of teacherness

From teacher + -ness.

Questions about teacherness

What does teacherness mean?
Teacherness means the quality of being a teacher who is proficient at teaching.
What part of speech is teacherness?
Teacherness is a noun.

Words near teacherness in the dictionary

  1. teachering
  2. teacherish
  3. teacherless
  4. teacherlike
  5. teacherly
  6. teacherness
  7. teachers
  8. Teachers Village East
  9. Teachers Village West
  10. teachers' pets
  11. teachership

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