Americannessn.
/əˈmɛrᵻkənnəs/, U.S. /əˈmɛrəkə(n)nəs/ The quality or fact of being American or having American characteristics.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > character or quality
Yankeeism1820
Americanism1833
Yankeedoodleism1836
Americanness1862
Yankeeness1909
1862 N. Amer. Rev. July 87 For the Americanness of his work this Doctor of Laws received a wreath made of Connecticut and other domestic laurel.
1885 Sat. Rev. 17 Oct. 517/2 In none of Mr. Howells' books is his Americanness more conspicuous than in his latest..The Rise of Silas Lapham.
1939 I. H. Herron Small Town in Amer. Lit. x. 334 Stubbornly clinging to the genteel traditions of Tiverton, Deephaven, and Old Chester, their loyal defenders bravely resisted the almost overwhelming Americanness of a vigorous emergent order.
1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes iv. 44 In order to emphasise the Americanness of the American national game, a National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was opened in 1939.
2002 T. Nairn Pariah ii. 28 American piety is more ostentatious than the British kind: the glue has to be visible, and publicly advertised as the ‘private’ dimension of Americanness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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