campness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English camp 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 campness From camp + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being camp.
From its beginning, the group had an “irretrievable air of campness.”
2009 January 23, Dwight Garner, “The Mahvelous and the Damned”, in New York Times: