Negroness

English

Etymology

From Negro +‎ -ness.

Noun

Negroness (uncountable)

1. (chiefly US) The state of quality of being of black African origin, or of having qualities, experiences etc. characteristic of black people. [from 20th c.]
   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 144:

     [S]he was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness.