Meanings
nounratchetness (uncountable)
- USderogatoryslanguncountableThe quality of being ratchet.
The character’s appeal is universal though because she represents a feminist politics of disrespectability (what black American feminists call ratchetness) that has no time for prim notions of femininity as demure, quiet and self-effacing.
2015 October 6, Lola Okolosie, “Cookie in Empire is a badass and a models of feminist disrespectability”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2017
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ratchetness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ratchetness
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“ratchetness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ratchetness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ratchetness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ratchetness.
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