Americaness

English

Etymology 1

American +‎ -ness

Noun

Americaness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of Americanness
    • 2002, Rusty L. Monhollon, "This Is America?:" The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas, Palgrave (2002), →ISBN, page 125:
      There was support for the United States' involvement in Vietnam, though in Lawrence such support expressed a particular brand of patriotism, an Americaness drawn from the past.
    • 2005, Sarah K. Fields, Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America, University of Illinois Press (2008), →ISBN, page 47:
      Although cultural pride in baseball seems to stem from its Americaness, cultural pride in football seems linked to the sport's manly qualities […]
    • 2008, Patrick B. Mullen, The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore, University of Illinois Press (2008), →ISBN, page 8:
      The necessity of race to Americaness continued through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and remains central to our identity today: […]

Etymology 2

American +‎ -ess

Noun

Americaness (plural Americanesses)

  1. (rare) A female American.
    • 1839, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found:
      With such expectations, then, every true American and Americaness was expected to be at his or her post, for the solemn occasion.
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