campness

campness

English

Etymology

    From camp + -ness.

    Noun

    campness (uncountable)

    1. (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.”