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Meaning of Americanness in English:

Americanness

noun

See American

‘I am becoming a little more Canadian each day, and yet I have never in my life felt more American, even as that Americanness is now undergoing some kind of transformation of its own.’
  • ‘Viewers are invited to celebrate their Americanness by buying a flag kit, complete with stars-and-stripes button and stickers.’
  • ‘But Britishness, like Americanness, need not be like that.’
  • ‘No attempt was made to cover up the Americanness of the book.’
  • ‘These early biographies consistently underplay West's Americanness while amplifying his identity as a Briton.’