See niggerness on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "nigger", "3": "ness" }, "expansion": "nigger + -ness", "name": "suffix" } ], "etymology_text": "From nigger + -ness.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "niggerness (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English offensive terms", "English terms suffixed with -ness", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1967 August 14, Johnson Publishing Company, Black World/Negro Digest, Johnson Publishing Company, page 16:", "text": "Now if this scourge, this blues, this niggerness is so terrible; if it has been inflicted upon us for all these years; if it has infected the whole social and political body of this country and damaged its soul in the process, and if we have survived because we were “too damn mean to cry,”—not only because we “got good religion,” but because we “got good bread,” then we shouldn't even forget the experience, because it is a part of our uniqueness. We shouldn't ever forget the experiences of niggerness—the whole range of it.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2005 December 2, Harry Justin Elam, Kennell A. Jackson, Kennell Jackson, Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 355:", "text": "The new millennium brings a new appreciation of niggerness not as resistance but collective embrace. Moreover, much like the Pet Rock or Pokémon fads that have captivated commercialized America, Dela declares that blackface has a craze that sweeps the nation.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012 September 19, Albert Murray, South to a Very Old Place, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:", "text": "Because to them it was only as if you were hiding your long black snake-writhing niggerness under your clothes while showing another color in your face, camouflaging yourself like a lizard. Nor did anything seem to confirm their their suspicions about the snake rubbery blackness of your hidden niggerness more convincingly than the sight of you dancing.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "The state or period of being a nigger (all senses)." ], "links": [ [ "state", "state" ], [ "period", "period" ], [ "nigger", "nigger" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(offensive) The state or period of being a nigger (all senses)." ], "tags": [ "offensive", "uncountable" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "niggerdom" }, { "word": "niggerhood" } ], "word": "niggerness" }
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