donnishness

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English

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Etymology

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From donnish +‎ -ness.

Noun

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donnishness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being donnish.
    • 1914, H. G. Wells, chapter 9, in The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman[1]:
      In the morning he got up pallid and he shaved badly, but he was a generation ahead of his own Euphemia series, and the school of charm and quiet humour and of letting things slide with a kind of elegant donnishness, had lost him for ever…