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Europeanity
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English
Etymology
From en European ity.
Pronunciation
en ænɪti 6
Noun
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The quality or characteristic of being European.
en Europeanness
en 2011 Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies Edgard Sankara Rejecting the “Europeanity” and “Africanity” they see in Négritude, Créolité pleads for an internal vision of the Caribbean focused on the French Caribbean realities: “Lavision intérieure,” which can be reached by writing in Creole.
en 2013 The Interrelation between the Right to Identity of Minorities and Their Socio-Economic Participation Kristin Henrard 141 When setting criteria for "performative whiteness," both the degree of cultural assimilation, and value system adaptation (such as practicing Christianity, for example) of the applicants, as well as the initial Europeanity of the kin-group was weighed.
en 2014 Europeanization and European Integration R. Coman; T. Kostera; L. Tomini The discourse of Europeanity is one that combines 'we' with a collective political identity beyond the state. The emergence of the Europeanity discourse coincided with the end of the Second World War, when the legitimacyof state power and its ability to regulate human collectivity came into question.
Coordinate terms
en Africanity, en Africanness
en Asianity, en Asianness
Translations
quality or characteristic of being European
Basque: eu europartasun
Catalan: ca europeïtat f
Esperanto: eo eŭropeco
Finnish: fi eurooppalaisuus
French: fr européanité f, fr européité f
German: de Europäanität f, de Europäischsein n
Japanese: ja ヨーロッパ性 Yōroppasei
Polish: pl europejskość f
Portuguese: pt europeidade f
Spanish: es europeidad f