Europeanity

Noun

Europeanity (uncountable)

1. The quality or characteristic of being European.
   • Rejecting the “Europeanity” and “Africanity” they see in Négritude, Créolité pleads for an internal vision of the Caribbean focused on the French Caribbean realities: “Lavision intérieure,” which can be reached by writing in Creole.2011, Edgard Sankara, Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies
   • When setting criteria for "performative whiteness," both the degree of cultural assimilation, and value system adaptation (such as practicing Christianity, for example) of the applicants, as well as the initial Europeanity of the kin-group was weighed.2013, Kristin Henrard, The Interrelation between the Right to Identity of Minorities and Their Socio-Economic Participation, page 141

   Synonyms:

   Europeanness