Thesaurus / bookishness
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- refinement
- cultivation
- knowledge
- savvy
- science
- culture
- learning
- lore
- pedantry
- literacy
- enlightenment
- scholarship
- letters
- studiousness
- learnedness
- brains
- intellectuality
- scholarliness
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But his well-knit body and clear eyes showed no marks of bookishness, and Italy had made him a swordsman.
THE PATH OF THE KINGJOHN BUCHANAll the unreality and mere bookishness of M. Comte's knowledge of physical science comes out in the passage I have italicised.
LAY SERMONS, ADDRESSES AND REVIEWSTHOMAS HENRY HUXLEYIt was a sad example of beauty sacrificed on the altar of bookishness.
THE SILVER POPPYARTHUR STRINGERBut that did not trouble me: I knew, I felt that I should be understood and that this very bookishness might be an assistance.
WHITE NIGHTS AND OTHER STORIESFYODOR DOSTOEVSKYPerhaps it was the stimulus of mountain air, a bracing climate, that got him out of his habitual bookishness.
THE GILDED MANCLIFFORD SMYTHThere was a bookishness, a certain formality in this woman's language, which was very remarkable.
JOURNALS OF DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, VOL. I (OF 2)DOROTHY WORDSWORTHThe latter were books of which the principal characteristic was not their bookishness but their decorativeness.
PALAEOGRAPHYBERNARD QUARITCHRousseau himself does not surpass Diderot or D'Alembert in contempt for mere bookishness.
DIDEROT AND THE ENCYCLOPAEDISTS (VOL 1 OF 2)JOHN MORLEYThen I tackled Beowulf, and found it to be what I guessed—no rugged national epic at all, but a blown-out bag of bookishness.
BROTHER COPASSIR ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCHBut for a' that, and a' that—great is bookishness and the charm of books.
IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN AND OTHER ESSAYSAUGUSTINE BIRRELLWORDS RELATED TO BOOKISHNESS
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