campness

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English

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Etymology

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From camp +‎ -ness.

Noun

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campness (uncountable)

  1. (art) The quality of being camp
    • 2009 January 23, Dwight Garner, “The Mahvelous and the Damned”, in New York Times[1]:
      From its beginning, the group had an “irretrievable air of campness.”