Germannessn.
/ˈdʒəːmənnəs/, U.S. /ˈdʒərmə(n)nəs/ The quality or fact of being German, or of having German characteristics.
ΚΠ
1883 J. S. Stallybrass tr. J. Grimm Teutonic Mythol. III. xxxiii. 987 (note) Mone..will hardly boggle over the Germanness of ‘engel’.
1953 Geogr. Jrnl. 119 18 Among the French-German marchmen there can be distinguished a group which combines the maximum of both ‘Frenchness’ and ‘Germanness’.
1989 J. Updike Self-consciousness iv. 134 Along with my authority-worshipping Germanness and my delusional filial attachment to Lyndon Baines Johnson, my wife's reflexive liberalism helped form my unfortunate undovish views.
2006 M. W. Jackson Harmonious Triads iii. 53 As music was a critical element in identifying ‘Germanness’, he felt that it must be revived.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1883- countersink bit
- countersinker
- countersinking
- countersinks
- counterskipper
- countersleight
- counterslope
- countersmile
- countersnarl
- countersociety
- countersparing
- counterspeech
- counterspell
- counterspells
- counterspies
- counterspy
- counterstain
- counterstained
- counterstaining
- counterstains
- counterstand
- counterstatant
- counterstate
- counterstated
- counterstatement