Braininess

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The characteristic of being brainy. uncountable

    "[…] any excess of intellect—'braininess' was her word for it—tended to belong, in her eyes, to the 'beastly'."

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acuityaptitudebrightnessbrillianceclevernessdexterity

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"[…] any excess of intellect—'braininess' was her word for it—tended to belong, in her eyes, to the 'beastly'."

Etymology

From brainy + -ness.

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