Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Jewishness en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English Jewish Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English Jewishness From Jewish + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) The property of being Jewish.
    • When I first knew you I was struck by your pride in your Jewishness, but as far as I knew you weren't yet a lesbian. Can you ttell me something about how you came to terms with these two parts of yourself? 1982 August 14, Andrea Fred Loewenstein, Evelyn Torton Beck, “Bringing it all Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 8:
    • When Zack Galifianakis asks Paul Rudd about his Jewishness in “Between Two Ferns: The Movie,” the actor responds with a quip. 2023 April 4, Harmeet Kaur, “What does it mean to be Jewish in the US?”, in CNN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Jewishnesses Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

goyishkeit · Jewiness · Yiddishkeit

Synonyms

Jewship · Jewhood

Translations (24)

lt žydiškùmas (Translations) · cs židovství (Translations) · ru евре́йство (Translations) · eo judeco (Translations) · fi juutalaisuus (Translations) · ja ユダヤ性 (Translations) · el εβραϊσμός (Translations) · ru евре́йскость (Translations) · es judeidad (Translations) · fr judéité (Translations) · id keyahudian (Translations) · it ebraicità (Translations) · de Jüdischkeit (Translations) · pl żydowskość (Translations) · pl żydostwo (Translations) · de Judentum (Translations) · fr judaïté (Translations) · el εβραϊκότητα (Translations) · tr Yahudilik (Translations) · bn ইহুদিয়ানা (Translations) · de Judesein (Translations) · yi ייִדישקייט (Translations) · he יְהוּדִיּוּת (Translations) · io Judeso (Translations)