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单词 southernness
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southernnessn.

Brit. /ˈsʌð(ə)nnəs/, U.S. /ˈsəðər(n)nəs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: southern adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < southern adj. + -ness suffix. Compare southness n.
The quality of having a character, attitude, appearance, etc., distinctive or typical of the southern part of a country or region, esp. the Southern states of the United States. Also: the quality or fact of being from the south.
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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > [noun] > quality
summer?1440
meridionality1664
southernness1835
southness1930
1835 A. Cregeen Dict. Manks Lang. 185/2 E Yias'sid, his southernness.
1873 R. L. Stevenson Let. Nov. (1911) 92 I wish I could give you the least notion of the southernness and Provençality of all that I saw.
1891 Harper's Mag. Sept. 640/2 It is all very Southern, and nicely differentiated in its Kentucky Southernness from..Louisianian life.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 11 Feb. 2/1 I understood the Southernness of Brive..in this characteristic.
1931 E. Blunden Votive Tablets 210 The weaknesses of his verse,..the exuberant southernness of so much of it might be effeminate.
1966 Listener 10 Mar. 357/3 Cleanth Brooks's recent book on the Southernness of Faulkner.
1980 T. Holme Neapolitan Streak 10 He had never shown..prejudice against Peroni's southern-ness as most northerners invariably did.
2000 Oxf. Amer. May 135/1 Dusty..sounded more convincing in her Southernness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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