Gee-whizzery

Quick meaning: Gee-whizzery is a noun meaning A response of enthusiasm towards surprising and/or technically impressive things.

Meaning

A response of enthusiasm towards surprising and/or technically impressive things.

More Meanings

1. Something that inspires gee-whizzery; something surprising and/or technically impressive.

Example Sentences

The density of gee-whizzery in Media Player makes the interface and controls rather cluttered , as you see in Figure 10.1.

In any applied science it is important not to be seduced by 'gee-whizzery'. Every 'Gee Whiz!' should be accompanied by a 'So what?'

Dicussing the recent history of American cultural studies, Ross finds that it has “rejected the more celebratory, native tradition of gee-whizzery,” by and large.

This shift toward the epideictic in popularizations of science—and the sensationalism and gee-whizzery that may result—is, then, not a punishment inflicted on science stories by disdainful or malicious journalists.

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