Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nerdom

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nerd-dom
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The attitudes and behaviours of a nerd; nerdiness.

Colloquial; Uncountable

noun

Nerds considered as a group.

Colloquial; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"I still chuckle at some of [the] jokes that we targeted to very narrow slices of nerdom."

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).

Word Breakdown

Suffix: nerd

Usage

Inflected Forms

nerddom (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

geekdom

Questions

What does nerdom mean?: The attitudes and behaviours of a nerd; nerdiness.
Where does nerdom come from?: 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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