braininess

braininess

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English brainy
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English braininess

    From brainy + -ness.

    Noun

    braininess (uncountable)

    1. The characteristic of being brainy.
      • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 7, in Burmese Days‎[1]:
        […] any excess of intellect—'braininess' was her word for it—tended to belong, in her eyes, to the 'beastly'.

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