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nerdom

noun

Etymology

From nerd + -dom; attested in the USA from 1983. Note that -dom is used both in the sense of “domain” (nerds, as a group) and in the sense of “characteristics” (being a nerd, nerdiness).

Definitions

  1. The attitudes and behaviours of a nerd

    The attitudes and behaviours of a nerd; nerdiness.

    • When she [Valerie Mahaffey] was 17 she fell in love with a schoolmate named Ben: 'Together, we pulled each other out of nerddom,' she said.
    • The self-described "exemplar of nerdom" feels right at home with Carl Sagan's speculative science-fiction [title]
    • Even movies that first appear to add a promising element of nerdom always end up doing something dumb, like tarnishing a tense computer-based drama with idiotic and unusable (but oh so very sexy) 3D interfaces.

  2. Nerds considered as a group.

    • I still chuckle at some of [the] jokes that we targeted to very narrow slices of nerdom.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA