techiness en · NOUN
Etymology
From techy + -ness.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of tetchiness.
alt of tetchiness
He was not a good subordinate, yet lacked the qualities of a leader. A constitutional warmth of temperament, and a seeming techiness and irritability, involved him in some unworthy squabbles.
1847, The eclectic magazine of foreign literature, science, and art: Volume 11, page 109:
- (informal, uncountable) The quality of being techy, or technically oriented.