Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being techy; peevishness; fretfulness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being techy.
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- noun Alternative form of
tetchiness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most important, media outlets, alongside Knight and other foundations, must invent a new news paradigm (or revive an age-old one) where the quality of stories and their interaction with the public take precedence over the speed, frequency, or "high-techiness" of the medium.
Alexander Heffner: It's A Marriage -- Journalists and Citizen Journalists 2009
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For others, it is a reason to get excited about numbers, data, processes, technology, and general techiness.
InteracTiVoty: What is Digital? Asking for Permission. - Mark Risis - MediaBizBlogger 2009
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But maybe the candidates 'disinterest in engaging with voters online is about neither gender nor techiness: it's about resources and time.
Candidates and Web Communities: How much do they matter? Aarons, Morra 2007
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And I must admit I'm impressed by the level of techiness-people here are fully jacked in.
Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995
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One grudgingly has to respect someone who's fortysomething and still in computers-there's a core techiness there that must be respected.
Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995
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Artists in all fields are popularly stigmatized as a testy lot -- _irritabile genus_ -- but their techiness does not necessarily mean opposition to criticism, but only to uninformed and unappreciative criticism, especially if it be cocksure and blatant.
The Booklover and His Books Harry Lyman Koopman 1898
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In his unreflective and headlong techiness, he fires up at the least hint that but seems to touch his honour, without pausing, or deigning to observe the plainest conditions of a fair and prudent judgment.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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In his unreflective and headlong techiness, he fires up at the least hint that but seems to touch his honour, without pausing, or deigning to observe the plainest conditions of a fair and prudent judgment.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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At the time it was groundbreaking in its hi-techiness, pioneering the use of computer graphics and blending live action with animation.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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At the time it was groundbreaking in its hi-techiness, pioneering the use of computer graphics and blending live action with animation.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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