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folkishness en · NOUN

Etymology

From folkish + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being folkish.
    • Mr. Hakola’s music scampers about mischievously, mixing together shapely lyricism, atonality, quirky folkishness and an almost hedonistic approach to timbre and rhythm. 2007 April 26, Allan Kozinn, “A Finnish Composer Possessed of a Joyful, Mischievous Spirit”, in New York Times: