Goyishness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The fact of being goyish, or non-Jewish. uncountable

    "Is the author aware, I wonder, how Joel's neglect of his religious heritage parallels his repression of his sexual past? […] In any case, it's there anyhow: Joel married not only into straightness but into goyishness."

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"Is the author aware, I wonder, how Joel's neglect of his religious heritage parallels his repression of his sexual past? […] In any case, it's there anyhow: Joel married not only into straightness but into goyishness."

Etymology

From goyish + -ness.

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