Meanings
noundonnishness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality of being donnish.
In the morning he got up pallid and he shaved badly, but he was a generation ahead of his own Euphemia series, and the school of charm and quiet humour and of letting things slide with a kind of elegant donnishness, had lost him for ever…
1914, H. G. Wells, chapter 9, in The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
Origin
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donnishness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/donnishness
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“donnishness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/donnishness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “donnishness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/donnishness.
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