Definitions
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- noun The quality or characteristic of being
European .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And there's the stain of Europeanness, which is enough on its own to make many right-wing pundits reject it on reverse-snobbery grounds.
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And there's the stain of Europeanness, which is enough on its own to make many right-wing pundits reject it on reverse-snobbery grounds.
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I went to Istanbul recently both to see how exactly Istanbul was taking on this role as a European Capital of Culture and also to examine the "Europeanness" of the city.
The Two Continents Of Istanbul Akhil Sharma 2010
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(The same goes for her cherished "Europeanness," he added.)
The X Factor 2004
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(The same goes for her cherished "Europeanness," he added.)
The X Factor 2004
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European Capital of Culture and also to examine the "Europeanness" of the city.
Forbes.com: News Akhil Sharma 2010
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The odd thing is that Americans are much more concerned with "Europeanness" than are modern-day Europeans!
Dissident Voice 2009
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I did feel there was something funny going on, that this was less to do with the election than with a sense of creating Europeanness.
"An exotic and wasteful box-ticking exercise" Richard 2008
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Recent years have brought concerns that the country might grow too muscular, becoming a European uber-power that would bully its neighbors and abandon the politics of Europeanness in favor of Germanness.
The German Problem 2007
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Writing "St. Konstantin" conveys a sense of eastern-Europeanness without actually burdening the reader with the need to sound out a word, like Agiou Konstantinou, that he probably hasn't seen before.
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