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Europeanness, n.
Brit. |ˌjʊərəˈpiːənnəs|, |ˌjɔːrəˈpiːənnəs|, U.S. |ˌjərəˈpiə(n)nəs|, |ˌjurəˈpiə(n)nəs|
[‹ European adj. + -ness suffix. Compare earlier Europeanity n.]
The quality or fact of being European, or having or sharing a European heritage.
[1921Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 42 287 The use of matriarchy as evidence of the non-Indo-Europeanness of the Picts.] 1928Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 22 May 10/6 (advt.) Visit Vancouver and Victoria. How you'll love their European-ness! 1931H. H. Hemming & D. Hemming tr. A. Siegfried England's Crisis 302 In the minds of the Anglo-Saxons the ‘Europeanness’ of Great Britain is not complete. 1954Amer. Lit. 26 447 Obviously Fry the composer was the prisoner of the encompassing, permeating, overwhelming Europeanness of the means, the resources, the traditions at his disposal. 1968Slavic Rev. 27 356 This fundamental European-ness in architecture and town planning was reinforced by the Russians after the establishment of the Grand Duchy in 1809. 1986Daily Tel. 4 Jan. 12/6 It's the EC now, the European Community, a syntactical change intended to heighten our feeling of Europeanness. 2005Times (Nexis) 19 July (T2 section) 10 It was a deep sense of their Europeanness that connected these two, very different, people. |