Negroness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Negro +‎ -ness.

Noun[edit]

Negroness (uncountable)

  1. (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, published 2013, page 144:
      [S]he was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness.
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