Slavness

English

Etymology

Slav +‎ -ness

Noun

Slavness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being Slavic, or belonging to the Slavs in terms of identity.
   • 1999, J. Pettifer, The New Macedonian Question, page 51:

     […] they continue to mirror-image the Greeks in their obsession with antiquity and in downgrading the Slavness of contemporary Macedonians.

   • 2007, Edyta M. Bojanowska, Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism, page 116:

     Gogol's friend Mikhail Pogodin, who specialized in the topic, accepted the Norman theory yet argued for the basic Slavness of early Rusian culture.

Related terms

• Slavdom
• Slavhood