nerdiness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

nerdy +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

nerdiness (uncountable)

  1. the quality of being nerdy
    • 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)[1], page R28:
      [A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...