braininess

noun

braininess

noun

Etymology From brainy + -ness.

1

The characteristic of being brainy.

  • […] any excess of intellect—'braininess' was her word for it—tended to belong, in her eyes, to the 'beastly'.1934, George Orwell, chapter 7, in Burmese Days:

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