campness

English

Etymology

From camp +‎ -ness.

Noun

campness (uncountable)

  1. (art) The quality of being camp.
    Synonym: campiness
    • 2009 January 23, Dwight Garner, “The Mahvelous and the Damned”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      From its beginning, the group had an “irretrievable air of campness.”
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