campness
English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Indo-European *-tus English campness From camp + -ness.
Noun
campness (uncountable)
- (art) The quality of being camp.
- Synonym: campiness
2009 January 23, Dwight Garner, “The Mahvelous and the Damned”, in New York Times[1]:From its beginning, the group had an “irretrievable air of campness.”
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