studiedness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

studied +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

studiedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being studied.
    • 2009 April 5, Jan Hoffman, “Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version”, in New York Times[1]:
      The tale of Meade and Ms. Althouse is a cross between the studiedness of a Victorian epistolary courtship —a modern-day Robert Browning googling his dear Elizabeth Barrett — and the wackiness of 21st-century life online.