nerdom noun2 •(informal, rare) The attitudes and behaviours of a nerd; nerdiness.When she [Valerie Mahaffey] was 17 she fell in love with a schoolmate named Ben: 'Together, we pulled each other out of nerddom,' she said. — 1983 •(informal, rare) Nerds considered as a group.I still chuckle at some of [the] jokes that we targeted to very narrow slices of nerdom. — 2009