单词 | africanness |
释义 | Africannessn. The quality or condition of being African; African character. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > [noun] > quality or character Africanism1759 Africanness1889 Africanity1962 Afrocentricity1971 Afrocentrism1972 1889 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Champion 10 Oct. 3/5 The big bunch of woolly hair indicated his Africanness and no mistake. 1920 Outing Apr. 9 Dee went into ecstacy over the wagon. The picturesqueness of it! The romance of it! The Africaness of it! 1961 S. Hempstone Africa xxi. 629 Dubois..represents the first phase, in which the important feature was ‘blackness’, not ‘Africanness’. 1971 Black World Oct. 10/1 Our Africanness..must operate with African ‘spiritual communalism’ as a philosophical base. 1980 Eng. World-wide 1 i. 90 The setting and languages leave no doubt as to its Africanness. 2003 S. Méndez-Méndez & G. A. Cueto Notable Caribbeans & Caribbean Americans 65 Bradshaw learned to value his Africanness and was guided by the fundamental principle that blacks should be equal participants in society. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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