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Australianness

Australianness noun: the state or quality of being Australian.

Noun

Australianness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being Australian.
    • He believed that the people he looked at around the room were had it. Did not have what the policy required of them. Did not share the dream of Australianness.2013, Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, Constable (2016), page 138

Origin of Australianness

From Australian + -ness.

Questions about Australianness

What does Australianness mean?
Australianness means the state or quality of being Australian.
What part of speech is Australianness?
Australianness is a noun.

Words near Australianness in the dictionary

  1. Australianize
  2. Australianized
  3. Australianizes
  4. Australianizing
  5. Australianly
  6. Australianness
  7. Australians
  8. australidelphian
  9. australidelphians
  10. australine
  11. Australioid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Australianness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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