donnishness

English

Etymology

From donnish +‎ -ness.

Noun

donnishness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being donnish.
   • 1914, H. G. Wells, chapter 9, in The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman‎^[1]:

     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…