Jewishness

English

Etymology

Jewish +‎ -ness

Noun

Jewishness (usually uncountable, plural Jewishnesses)

1. The property of being Jewish.

   Synonyms: Jewhood, Jewship

   • 1982 August 14, Andrea Fred Loewenstein, Evelyn Torton Beck, “Bringing it all Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 8:

     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?

Translations

Translations

• Bengali: ইহুদিয়ানা (ihudiẏana)
• Czech: židovství (cs) m
• Esperanto: judeco
• Finnish: juutalaisuus (fi)
• French: judéité (fr) f, judaïté (fr) f (less common)
• German: Judentum (de) n, Judesein n, Jüdischkeit (de) f
• Greek: εβραϊκότητα (el) f (evraïkótita), εβραϊσμός (el) m (evraïsmós)
• Hebrew: יְהוּדִיּוּת f (yehudiyút)
• Ido: Judeso
• Indonesian: keyahudian
• Italian: ebraicità f
• Japanese: ユダヤ性 (yudayasei)
• Russian: евре́йскость f (jevréjskostʹ), евре́йство (ru) n (jevréjstvo)
• Spanish: judeidad f
• Turkish: Yahudilik (tr)
• Yiddish: ייִדישקייט (yidishkeyt)

See also

• Jewiness
• Yiddishkeit