folkloricness

English

Etymology

From folkloric +‎ -ness.

Noun

folkloricness (uncountable)

1. (rare) The quality of being folkloric.
   • 2008, Christopher Stone, Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon: The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation‎^[1], page 11:

     I will argue that this phenomenon may help partially to explain the increasing extravagance and decreasing folkloricness of these works.

   • 2013 October 1, Alli Marshall, “Sound Track web extra: Sigur Rós”, in Mountain Xpress:

     While the light show was incredible — a spectacle in and of itself as well as an enhancement to the music — there were times that it seemed in opposition to the galloping folkloric-ness and organic essence of the music.

   • 2016 September, Jessaca Leinaweaver, “Andalucía, the Americas, and the Anthropological Object”, in American Anthropologist, volume 118, number 3, page 626:

     Being constituted as an object of anthropological study, while a crucial form of recognition, may—given the association of anthropology with the exotic or “traditional”—also have the effect of cementing Andalucía’s folkloricness and reproducing its othering.