donnishness en · NOUN
Etymology
From donnish + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being donnish.
In the morning he got up pallid and he shaved badly, but he was a generation ahead of his own Euphemia series, and the school of charm and quiet humour and of letting things slide with a kind of elegant donnishness, had lost him for ever…
1914, H. G. Wells, chapter 9, in The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman: