Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being bookish.
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- noun The property of being
bookish .
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- noun exaggerated studiousness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Received a hottish email from Jacqueline Bartlett of the St. Martins Booktown Initiative informing me that her Shipbuilding and Fishing village’s claim to bookishness is anything but bogus.
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Received a hottish email from Jacqueline Bartlett of the St. Martins Booktown Initiative informing me that her Shipbuilding and Fishing village’s claim to bookishness is anything but bogus.
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This "bookishness" formed a real defect of Renaissance systems of training.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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"bookishness" of some of the panels of incidents from American literature, and several of them went to beautify the great house on the
The Development of Embroidery in America Candace Wheeler 1875
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It is this d ” ” d bookishness which is so unreal.
Father Payne Benson, Arthur C. 1915
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His lifelong innate bookishness is barely noticed.
Barbara Probst Solomon: Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware Barbara Probst Solomon 2011
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Animal is like an English village green retooling of Vampire Weekend, simarly inspired by African pop but more breezy and lacking in the Americans' bookishness.
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Animal is like an English village green retooling of Vampire Weekend, simarly inspired by African pop but more breezy and lacking in the Americans' bookishness.
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Since we chatted, I have thought so much about the reading list and how my understanding of what Joe was thinking in creating it has changed the sense of distance and isolation that I'd been feeling as a result of his bookishness.
We're Not on the Same Page, but That's OK Katherine Rosman 2012
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His lifelong innate bookishness is barely noticed.
Barbara Probst Solomon: Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware Barbara Probst Solomon 2011
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