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Dominicanness

Dominicanness noun: quality of being Dominican.

Noun

Dominicanness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being Dominican.
    • Oscar lost the mustache next, and then the glasses, bought contacts with the money he was making at the lumberyard and tried to polish up what remained of his Dominicanness, tried to be more like his cursing swaggering cousins, if only because he had started to suspect that in their Latin...2007, Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Faber and Faber (2009), page 30

Origin of Dominicanness

From Dominican + -ness.

Questions about Dominicanness

What does Dominicanness mean?
Dominicanness means quality of being Dominican.
What part of speech is Dominicanness?
Dominicanness is a noun.

Words near Dominicanness in the dictionary

  1. Dominican Republic
  2. Dominican Republican
  3. Dominican Republicans
  4. Dominicanism
  5. Dominicanisms
  6. Dominicanness
  7. Dominicano
  8. Dominicanos
  9. Dominicans
  10. Dominick
  11. dominicker

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