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Americanness

Americanness

1 7.6
The typical qualities and ways of people from the United States
  • noun
  • /əˈmɛrɪkənnəs/
translation icon : americanidad
  • In particular, she stresses the obvious but oft-neglected fact of the Americanness of the Loyalist migrants and their reinforcement by other Americans down to the War of 1812.
  • concept of Americanness

For the immigrants who stay here, how does that affect their were their sense of Americanness?

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Examples

  • Third, within "Warming Trends" itself, baseball is an overt sign of Americanness, as evidenced by Hank's belief in the sport's ability to mark one as American.

    Academic text (2000)

  • David Roediger has argued that Americanness has historically been intertwined with whiteness.

    Academic text (2002)

  • For baseball to work as a marker of Americanness, it cannot be seen as Asian.

    Academic text (2000)

  • His research explores the spaces in which Turkish Americanness is formed, celebrated, and passed on to future generations.

    Academic text (2005)

  • So if I embrace my Americanness, for example, I'm to be in bad faith, according to SART.

  • As Catholics met the challenges to their "Americanness," they explicitly or implicitly offered their definition of the term.

    Academic text (1991)

  • In fact, it unified, clarified, and solidified our American identity, our Americanness, our progress, and progressiveness.

    Blog text (11)

  • What is significant for my theme, however, is that from the first, its leaders labored to document conclusively the Americanness of their immigrant forebears.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Often seen as an exemplar of the hard-boiled mystery novelist, Raymond Chandler frequently commented on the Americanness of his style.

    Academic text (2005)

  • The research focused on the unique traits that define Americanness in various communities across the United States.

Synonyms

Americanism
vsAmericanness
1 7.0

A habit or way of life common in the United States

describes general qualities or traits shared across people in that country

How American

Americanness
1 7.6
foreignness
1 6.8

Surface Forms

Americanness singular
Americannesses plural

Morphology

Americanness = American (transparent) = America + an + ness

Formed by adding the nominalizing suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'American'; the meaning 'the quality of being American' is directly compositional.

Etymology

Americanness comes from the country name America, which was named after the Italian explorer Amerigo, and the ending -ness means 'the quality of', as in happiness. So Americanness is the 'quality or qualities that are typical of Americans'.