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latinidad

latinidad noun: the constellation of attributes common to many Latin American cultures and peoples.

Noun (1)

latinidad (uncountable)

  1. The constellation of attributes common to many Latin American cultures and peoples.
    • It has also been described as a circulation of discourses that displace centers of power that tend to essentialize or fetishize latinidad.2005, Laura C. Valdez-Pagliaro, Writing Latinidad: Mexican Latino and Latina writers contextualizing language, narrative, and culture, page 2
    • In my attempt to better understand Latino masculinities I have developed a framework that combines latinidad and gender.2008, Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Roncamos Porque Podemos": Racialization, Redemption, and Mascu-latinidad, →ISBN

Noun (2) capitalized: Latinidad

Latinidad (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of latinidad.
    • That is, media signifiers of Latinidad rely on the production of familiar ethnic characteristics that communicate national origin through the use of language, dress, or music, such as the use of Spanish or salsa music to signal Latinidad. At the same time, media signifiers of Latinidad depend on...2010, Isabel Molina-Guzman, Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media, →ISBN, page 4
    • Do these cultural texts take part in a reverse discourse against the homogenizing penchant of Latinidad?2011, Afif S. Nasreddine, Contemporary Discourses of Latinidad

Forms of latinidad

alternative formLatinidad

Origin of latinidad

Borrowed from Spanish latinidad, from Latin Latīnitās. Doublet of Latinity.

Questions about latinidad

What does latinidad mean?
Latinidad means the constellation of attributes common to many Latin American cultures and peoples.
What part of speech is latinidad?
Latinidad is a noun.

Words near latinidad in the dictionary

  1. Latiner
  2. Latiners
  3. Latines
  4. Latinesque
  5. latinhood
  6. latinidad
  7. Latinisation
  8. Latinisations
  9. Latinise
  10. Latinised
  11. Latinises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: latinidad (page history and authors); Latinidad (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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