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nerdom

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Definition of nerdom

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (colloquial, rare, uncountable)The attitudes and behaviours of a nerd; nerdiness.
    “When she [Valerie Mahaffey] was 17 she fell in love with a schoolmate named Ben: 'Together, we pulled each other out of nerddom,' she said.”
    “The self-described "exemplar of nerdom" feels right at home with Carl Sagan's speculative science-fiction [title]”
    “Even movies that first appear to add a promising element of nerdom always end up doing something dumb, like tarnishing a tense computer-based drama with idiotic and unusable (but oh so very sexy) 3D interfaces.”
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noun

  1. (colloquial, rare, uncountable)The attitudes and behaviours of a nerd; nerdiness.
    “When she [Valerie Mahaffey] was 17 she fell in love with a schoolmate named Ben: 'Together, we pulled each other out of nerddom,' she said.”
    “The self-described "exemplar of nerdom" feels right at home with Carl Sagan's speculative science-fiction [title]”
    “Even movies that first appear to add a promising element of nerdom always end up doing something dumb, like tarnishing a tense computer-based drama with idiotic and unusable (but oh so very sexy) 3D interfaces.”
  2. (colloquial, rare, uncountable)Nerds considered as a group.
    “I still chuckle at some of [the] jokes that we targeted to very narrow slices of nerdom.”

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Etymology

From nerd + -dom; attested in the USA from 1983. Note that -dom is used both in the sense of “domain” (nerds, as a group) and in the sense of “characteristics” (being a nerd, nerdiness).

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