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Slavness

Slavness noun: the quality of being Slavic, or belonging to the Slavs in terms of identity.

Noun

Slavness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being Slavic, or belonging to the Slavs in terms of identity.
    • […] they continue to mirror-image the Greeks in their obsession with antiquity and in downgrading the Slavness of contemporary Macedonians.1999, J. Pettifer, The New Macedonian Question, page 51
    • Gogol's friend Mikhail Pogodin, who specialized in the topic, accepted the Norman theory yet argued for the basic Slavness of early Rusian culture.2007, Edyta M. Bojanowska, Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism, page 116

Origin of Slavness

From Slav + -ness.

Questions about Slavness

What does Slavness mean?
Slavness means the quality of being Slavic, or belonging to the Slavs in terms of identity.
What part of speech is Slavness?
Slavness is a noun.

Words near Slavness in the dictionary

  1. Slavized
  2. Slavizes
  3. Slavizing
  4. Slavko
  5. slavkovite
  6. Slavness
  7. Slavo-
  8. slavocracies
  9. slavocracy
  10. slavocrat
  11. slavocratic

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