celebratoriness

celebratoriness noun: the quality of being celebratory.

Noun

celebratoriness (uncountable)

(rare) The quality of being celebratory.
- Yet another area of contention is that Borderlands offers a spectacle of the painful splits that constitute Chicanas’ multiple positioning for the voyeuristic delectation of European American readers. In the foreword to the second edition of Bridge, Anzaldúa herself seems to be aware of the...1998, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, “Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La frontera: Cultural Studies, ‘Difference’, and the Non-Unitary Subject”, in Lois Parkinson Zamora, editor, Contemporary American Women...
- Brooks titled her collected poems Blacks. She continually strove to articulate an unambiguous race pride in a woman’s voice that was true to the complex and contradictory poetic details of black people’s lives. She was not hyperbolical; she wrote of mighty heroes and those with feet of clay. In her...2005, Elizabeth Alexander, “Introduction”, in The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project; 19), New York, N.Y.: The Library of America, →ISBN, page xxv

Other artists who use the border as a sign of multiplicity have been criticized for the opposite, for an excessive or inappropriate celebratoriness.1998, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, “Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La frontera: Cultural Studies, ‘Difference’, and the Non-Unitary Subject”, in...
In her very celebratoriness she practiced a kind of sober love for community.2005, Elizabeth Alexander, “Introduction”, in The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project; 19), New York, N.Y.: The Library of...
However, the desperate, nearly terminal celebratoriness of Sabbath’s Theatre associates this reductiveness with a form of transcendence.2006, Ian Gregson, “Philip Roth’s Vulgar, Aggressive Clowning”, in Character and Satire in Postwar Fiction (Continuum Literary Studies)...
Does “sexiness” become “celebratoriness” when the context is changed?2006, Michael Beckerman, “The Songs of Solomon (Rossi) as the Search for History Michael”, in George B[oyer] Stauffer, editor, The World of...

From celebratory + -ness.

What does celebratoriness mean?: Celebratoriness means the quality of being celebratory.
How do you use celebratoriness in a sentence?: Other artists who use the border as a sign of multiplicity have been criticized for the opposite, for an excessive or inappropriate celebratoriness.
What part of speech is celebratoriness?: Celebratoriness is a noun.

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