| 释义 |
Africanness|ˈæfrɪkənnɪs|
[f. african a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being African, African character.
1961John o' London's 15 June 659/1 An accent of Africanness—blackness if you will. 1961S. Hempstone Africa xxi. 629 Dubois..represents the first phase, in which the important feature was ‘blackness’, not ‘Africanness’. 1971Black World Oct. 10/1 Our Africanness..must operate with African ‘spiritual communalism’ as a philosophical base. 1973Ibid. Apr. 5 Black people retain enough of their Africanness to be identifiable as such. 1980English World-Wide I. i. 90 The setting and languages leave no doubt as to its Africanness. 1981B. B. Kachru in Ferguson & Heath Lang. in USA ii. 30, I would like to discuss some typical characteristics of these other Englishes, which mark their distinctive ‘Americanness’, ..‘Indianness’, or ‘Africanness’. |