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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Negroness en · NOUN

Etymology

From Negro + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (US, uncountable) The state of quality of being of black African origin, or of having qualities, experiences etc. characteristic of black people.
    • [S]he was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness. 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 144: