Definition of "bookishness" [bookishness]

• The property of being bookish. (noun)

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• "Received a hottish email from Jacqueline Bartlett of the St. Martins Booktown Initiative informing me that her Shipbuilding and Fishing village’s claim to bookishness is anything but bogus."
• "This "bookishness" formed a real defect of Renaissance systems of training."
• ""bookishness" of some of the panels of incidents from American literature, and several of them went to beautify the great house on the"