释义 |
bookishness|ˈbʊkɪʃnɪs| [see -ness.] Bookish quality; fondness for books or study; learning. (Often somewhat contemptuous.)
a1586Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1622) 521 A chain-shot against all learning or bookishnesse, as they commonly term it. 1685Baxter Paraphr. Acts xxvi. 24 Much Learning or Bookishness hath distracted thee. 1878Morley Diderot I. 210 Diderot despised mere bookishness. |