peopleness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]peopleness (uncountable)
- The quality of being a person or people; communal social identity.
- 2010, Terry Bain, You Are a Dog: Life Through the Eyes of Man's Best Friend, page 150:
- You are a modern dog, and more connected to your dogness and also to peopleness. The modern dog does not necessarily think in terms of "pack," since this is a social construct.
- 2012, Denise J. Wilson, I Know Nothing:
- I wonder if Jesus ever let his peopleness get in the way. I was recently thinking about how tough it is to constantly monitor my human tendencies.