Slavness

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noun

The quality of being Slavic, or belonging to the Slavs in terms of identity.

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Meanings

nounSlavness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being Slavic, or belonging to the Slavs in terms of identity.

    […] they continue to mirror-image the Greeks in their obsession with antiquity and in downgrading the Slavness of contemporary Macedonians.

    1999, J. Pettifer, The New Macedonian Question, page 51
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    Gogol's friend Mikhail Pogodin, who specialized in the topic, accepted the Norman theory yet argued for the basic Slavness of early Rusian culture.

    2007, Edyta M. Bojanowska, Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism, page 116

Origin

From Slav + -ness.

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APA

Slavness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Slavness

MLA

“Slavness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Slavness. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Slavness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Slavness.

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