Campiness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being campy. uncountable

    "Still, here, as in the calculated Gong Show campiness of El Grande de Coca-Cola[…], excellence would simply get in the way."

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bad tastecampcampcampnesscampnesshigh camp

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"Still, here, as in the calculated Gong Show campiness of El Grande de Coca-Cola[…], excellence would simply get in the way."

Etymology

From campy + -ness.

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