Nerdom
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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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Noun
nerdom
(uncountable)- (colloquial, rare) The attitudes and behaviours of a nerd; nerdiness.
- 1983, Nan C. Robertson, “Tigers or ‘top girls,’ Valerie Mahaffey adjusts,†The New York Times, April 1, 1983When she was 17 she fell in love with a schoolmate named Ben: 'Together, we pulled each other out of nerddom,' she said.
- 1997, Frederick S. Clarke, Cinefantastique, Volume 29The self-described "exemplar of nerdom" feels right at home with Carl Sagan's speculative science-fiction.
- 2008, Maximum PC (October 2008)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.
- (colloquial, rare) Nerds, considered as a group.
- 2009, Jack Nutting, Dave Mark, Jeff LaMarche, Learn Cocoa on the MacI still chuckle at some of jokes that we targeted to very narrow slices of nerdom.