Crossword clues for bookishness
bookishness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bookish \Book"ish\, a.
Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. ``A bookish man.''
--Addison. ``Bookish skill.''
--Bp. Hall.Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences. [1913 Webster] -- Book"ish*ly, adv. -- Book"ish*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The property of being bookish.
WordNet
n. exaggerated studiousness
Usage examples of "bookishness".
That summer, Mother was sure that Anne-Marie would find success as a famous Hollywood costume designer, just as she viewed my bookishness as a sign that I would become a university professor and take us all to live in some nice college town up-state.
He looked on my bookishness as a personal affront because he had flunked out of school.
Then (in Roger's vision) he could see the garlanded bibliopole turning to the expectant audience, giving his trailing gown a deft rearward kick as the ladies do on the stage, and uttering, without hesitation or embarrassment, with due interpolation of graceful pleasantry, that learned and unlaboured discourse on the delights of bookishness that he had often dreamed of.