braininess
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Noun[edit]
braininess (uncountable)
- The characteristic of being brainy.
- 1934, George Orwell, chapter 7, in Burmese Days[1]:
- […] any excess of intellect—'braininess' was her word for it—tended to belong, in her eyes, to the 'beastly'.