bookishness
Noun
Meaning
exaggerated studiousness
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culture
education
knowledge
reading
learning
literacy
scholarship
refinement
lore
diligence
erudition
letters
pedantry
bibliolatry
bibliomania
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Examples
Great is bookishness and the charm of books.
The grateful savants had accepted, and they were spending the rest of their lives reading fifteenth-hand opinions, taking pleasant naps, and drooling out to yawning students the anemic and wordy bookishness which they called learning.