bookiness

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English

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Etymology

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From booky +‎ -ness.

Noun

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bookiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being booky.
    • 1952, Frances Bruce Strain, Love at the Threshold, page 178:
      This, it seems to me, is the essential for marriage happiness, rather than the matching up of trait with trait, bookiness with bookiness, sportiness with sportiness, as Cinderella's Prince matched foot with slipper.