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Etymology edit

Appalachian +‎ -ness

Noun edit

Appalachianness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being Appalachian.
    • 2014 July 11, Jean Haskell Speer, The Appalachian Photographs of Earl Palmer, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:
      Like Curtis, Palmer wanted to capture in photographs his perceptions of a people, his own people in the mountains, his own imagery of Appalachianness.
    • 2015 December 18, Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Kim Donehower, Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 19:
      At the same time, by identifying Jenny and Donny as exceptions to these rules of Appalachianness, we are to think of them as worthy targets of literacy intervention.
    • 2021 May 11, Susan E. Keefe, Appalachian Mental Health, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:
      Moreover, since neither Appalachianness nor SES were related to the personal problems of the respondents, it would appear further that social networks constitute potent sources of support that transcend both culture and economic or []
    • 2022 April 25, Jacqueline Rhodes, Jonathan Alexander, The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric, Routledge, →ISBN:
      In the same ways queerness and Appalachianness cannot be separated for some, Blackness and queer Appalachianness cannot be separated for others.