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单词 africanity
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Africanityn.

Brit. /ˌafrᵻˈkanᵻti/, U.S. /ˌæfrəˈkænədi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: African adj., -ity suffix.
Etymology: < African adj. + -ity suffix, after French africanité (1916 or earlier; 1961 or earlier in speeches and writings by Léopold Sédar Senghor (see the definition note at Negritude n.)). Compare earlier Africanness n.
= Africanness n.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > [noun] > quality or character
Africanism1759
Africanness1889
Africanity1962
Afrocentricity1971
Afrocentrism1972
1962 C. Legum Pan-Africanism vi. 95 Until they have ‘recovered’ their roots it is not possible to achieve what Senghor calls Africanity.
1962 S. Touré in Foreign Affairs 41 144 It is a question of affirming our ‘Africanity’, that is to say our personality, without attempting to dress it up in Western or Eastern costume.
1969 N. Hare in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 434Africanity’ is the thing which ‘cuts across the [O.A.U.] Festival’.
1972 J. R. Rayfield tr. J. Maquet Africanity 13 Even if one..limited the racial ‘basis’ of Africanity to the Black African race, one would not get a homogeneous substratum.
1973 West Afr. 15 Oct. 1448/2 Talking to Europeans, Tagoe tends to lay on his ‘Africanity’ thickly.
2009 Africa News (Nexis) 12 Dec. Normally, an American-African is still very conscious of his indigenous Africanity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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