Americaness

English

Etymology 1

From American +‎ -ness or America +‎ -ness.

Noun

Americaness (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of Americanness
   • 2002, Rusty L. Monhollon, "This Is America?:" The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas, Palgrave, →ISBN, page 125:

     There was support for the United States' involvement in Vietnam, though in Lawrence such support expressed a particular brand of patriotism, an Americaness drawn from the past.

   • 2005, Sarah K. Fields, Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America, University of Illinois Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 47:

     Although cultural pride in baseball seems to stem from its Americaness, cultural pride in football seems linked to the sport's manly qualities […]

   • 2008, Patrick B. Mullen, The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 8:

     The necessity of race to Americaness continued through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and remains central to our identity today: […]

Etymology 2

From American +‎ -ess.

Noun

Americaness (plural Americanesses)

1. (rare) A female American.
   • 1839, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found‎^[1], page 93:

     With such expectations, then, every true American and Americaness was expected to be at his or her post, for the solemn occasion.

   • 1856, Household Words‎^[2], volume 35:

     There was, at the Leek, in the way of literature, aBradshaw, a work (selling sixty thousand daily, it said) of one of those Americanesses who have struggled in at the gate of the heaven of popularity before it could be shut after Mrs. Beecher Stowe

   • 1889 Americanisms (quoting Hallberger's Illustrated Magazine, date unknown)

     This woman is like most Americanesses - she hates walking.

   • 2007 1634: The Baltic War

     But this office was reputedly run by Americanesses, and the stories about them were enough to make any sane man pause. Incredible women, by all accounts

   • 2017 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught

     Between me and the picture of Denise— mostly the portrait—they'll be thinking 'Americans.' Well, Americanesses.

See also

• Africaness
• Asianess
• Europeaness