Non-englishness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The state or condition of not being English. uncountable
"In contrast to these positions, Aliens and Englishness is concerned with an important body of sixteenth-century drama that works out Englishness by dealing not with exotic or ancient others but with European aliens of the present and relatively recent past; not by resistance and antithesis alone but by absorption and similitude; not with 'elsewhere' as a location of non-Englishness but with the here and often the now of England […]"
Example
More examples"In contrast to these positions, Aliens and Englishness is concerned with an important body of sixteenth-century drama that works out Englishness by dealing not with exotic or ancient others but with European aliens of the present and relatively recent past; not by resistance and antithesis alone but by absorption and similitude; not with 'elsewhere' as a location of non-Englishness but with the here and often the now of England […]"
Etymology
From non-English + -ness.