"niggerness" meaning in All languages combined

See niggerness on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Etymology: From nigger + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|nigger|ness}} nigger + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} niggerness (uncountable)
  1. (offensive) The state or period of being a nigger (all senses). Tags: offensive, uncountable Synonyms: niggerdom, niggerhood
    Sense id: en-niggerness-en-noun-a~ukkFNk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

Download JSON data for niggerness meaning in All languages combined (2.7kB)

{
  "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": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ness",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967 August 10, 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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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, →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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 September 19, Albert Murray, South to a Very Old Place, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or period of being a nigger (all senses)."
      ],
      "id": "en-niggerness-en-noun-a~ukkFNk",
      "links": [
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ],
        [
          "period",
          "period"
        ],
        [
          "nigger",
          "nigger"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(offensive) The state or period of being a nigger (all senses)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "niggerdom"
        },
        {
          "word": "niggerhood"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "offensive",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "niggerness"
}
{
  "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"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967 August 10, 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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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, →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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 September 19, Albert Murray, South to a Very Old Place, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.