teacherness en · NOUN
Etymology
From teacher + -ness.
Meanings
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(rare, uncountable) The quality of being a teacher who is proficient at teaching
Methods of staffing and staff utilization in most public schools suggest that there is a quality—called "teacherness," perhaps—which, when a person becomes a teacher, overrides all his individuating qualities.
1972, Rodney Pennell Smith, Richard A. Dempsey, Differentiated staffing, page 2:How to motivate and uplift the pupils? It is indeed here that the "teacherness" of a teacher is at least; it is here that his individuality asserts.
1990, S. K. Aggarwal, Investigative Journalism in India, page 54:The Wongs had saved my self-esteem and graciously showed me the path to great teacherness.
2015, Pernille Ripp, Passionate Learners, page 2: