Negroness
English
Etymology
From Negro + -ness.
Noun
Negroness (uncountable)
- (chiefly US) The state of quality of being of black African origin, or of having qualities, experiences etc. characteristic of black people. [from 20th c.]
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad 2013, p. 144:
- [S]he was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness.
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad 2013, p. 144: