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niggerishness

niggerishness noun: the quality of being niggerish.

Noun

niggerishness (uncountable)

  1. (ethnic, offensive, slur) The quality of being niggerish.
    • Too many of us have escaped through the eye of the needle and when we look back we see only niggerishness, which spurs us to put even more distance between ourselves and our people.1997, Dewayne Wickham, Thinking Black
    • I have continued in this vein by arguing that even when the black subject turns pathological, becomes the bad black, his antisociality, his niggerishness, once again does the important work of demonstrating that he is removed from the main currents of modern society […]2007, Robert Reid-Pharr, Once you go Black: choice, desire, and the Black American intellectual, page 131

Origin of niggerishness

From niggerish + -ness.

Questions about niggerishness

What does niggerishness mean?
Niggerishness means the quality of being niggerish.
What part of speech is niggerishness?
Niggerishness is a noun.

Words near niggerishness in the dictionary

  1. niggerise
  2. niggerised
  3. niggerises
  4. niggerish
  5. niggerishly
  6. niggerishness
  7. niggerising
  8. niggerism
  9. niggerisms
  10. niggeritis
  11. niggerization

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