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bookishness

Noun

Meaning

exaggerated studiousness

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Great is bookishness and the charm of books. Augustine Birrell

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. Sinclair Lewis

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