Meanings
- uncountableThe quality or state of being Appalachian.
In the same ways queerness and Appalachianness cannot be separated for some, Blackness and queer Appalachianness cannot be separated for others.
2022 April 25, Jacqueline Rhodes, Jonathan Alexander, The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric, Routledge, →ISBN3 more examples
Like Curtis, Palmer wanted to capture in photographs his perceptions of a people, his own people in the mountains, his own imagery of Appalachianness.
2014 July 11, Jean Haskell Speer, The Appalachian Photographs of Earl Palmer, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBNAt the same time, by identifying Jenny and Donny as exceptions to these rules of Appalachianness, we are to think of them as worthy targets of literacy intervention.
2015 December 18, Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Kim Donehower, Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 19Moreover, since neither Appalachianness nor SES were related to the personal problems of the respondents, it would appear further that social networks constitute potent sources of support that transcend both culture and economic or[…]
2021 May 11, Susan E. Keefe, Appalachian Mental Health, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN
Origin
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Appalachianness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Appalachianness
“Appalachianness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Appalachianness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Appalachianness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Appalachianness.
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