Europeannessn.
/jʊərəˈpiːənnəs/, /jɔːrəˈpiːənnəs/, U.S. /ˌjərəˈpiə(n)nəs/, /ˌjʊrəˈpiə(n)nəs/ The quality or fact of being European, or having or sharing a European heritage.
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1921 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 42 287 The use of matriarchy as evidence of the non-Indo-Europeanness of the Picts.]
1928 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 22 May 10/6 (advt.) Visit Vancouver and Victoria. How you'll love their European-ness!
1931 H. 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.
1954 Amer. 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.
1968 Slavic 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.
1986 Daily Tel. 4 Jan. 12/6 It's the EC now, the European Community, a syntactical change intended to heighten our feeling of Europeanness.
2005 Times (Nexis) 19 July (T2 section) 10 It was a deep sense of their Europeanness that connected these two, very different, people.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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