Americaness
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom American + -ness or America + -ness.
Noun
editAmericaness (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of Americanness
Etymology 2
editNoun
editAmericaness (plural Americanesses)
- (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.