un-Americanness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un-American + -ness.
Noun
[edit]- The state or quality of being un-American.
- Coordinate term: anti-Americanness
- 2014, R. DesRochers, The New Humor in the Progressive Era, Springer, →ISBN:
- [Edward] Harrigan, who is best remembered for his turn-of-the-twentieth-century musical comedies with collaborator Tony Hart, went on to clarify that “if it isn't native, it isn't New York,” by way of explaining the un-Americanness presumably espoused by these new immigrants.