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peasantness

peasantness noun: the lifestyle or status of a peasant.

Noun

peasantness (uncountable)

  1. The lifestyle or status of a peasant.
    • The China case was also incorporated in an international debate that centered on the conflict between conserving “peasantness” versus “peasant elimination” in the course of development and globalization (Bernstein 2006; Ellis 2000; Kitching 2001; Zaputovich 2009).2014, Anna Ahlers, Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary China
    • Ethnicity as a dimension of social identity thus contrasts with peasantness in not being based primarily in the productionist assumptions of the latter term.2018, Michael Kearney, Reconceptualizing The Peasantry

Origin of peasantness

From peasant + -ness.

Questions about peasantness

What does peasantness mean?
Peasantness means the lifestyle or status of a peasant.
What part of speech is peasantness?
Peasantness is a noun.

Words near peasantness in the dictionary

  1. peasantizes
  2. peasantizing
  3. peasantless
  4. peasantlike
  5. peasantly
  6. peasantness
  7. peasantries
  8. peasantry
  9. peasants
  10. peasantship
  11. peasantships

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