bookishness
(ˈbʊkɪʃnɪs)
[see -ness.]
Bookish quality; fondness for books or study; learning. (Often somewhat contemptuous.)
| a 1586 Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1622) 521 A chain-shot against all learning or bookishnesse, as they commonly term it. 1685 Baxter Paraphr. Acts xxvi. 24 Much Learning or Bookishness hath distracted thee. 1878 Morley Diderot I. 210 Diderot despised mere bookishness. |