English

Noun

Americaness ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of Americanness
   • 2002, Rusty L. Monhollon, "This Is America?:" The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas, Palgrave (2002), ISBN 9781403982407, page 125:

     There was support for the United States' involvement in Vietnam, though in Lawrence such support expressed a particular brand of patriotism, an Americaness drawn from the past.

   • 2005, Sarah K. Fields, Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America, University of Illinois Press (2008), ISBN 0252029585, page 47:

     Although cultural pride in baseball seems to stem from its Americaness, cultural pride in football seems linked to the sport's manly qualities […]

   • 2008, Patrick B. Mullen, The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore, University of Illinois Press (2008), ISBN 9780252032653, page 8:

     The necessity of race to Americaness continued through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and remains central to our identity today: […]

Etymology 2

American +‎ -ess

Noun

Americaness ‎(plural Americanesses)

1. (rare) A female American.
   • 1839, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found:

     With such expectations, then, every true American and Americaness was expected to be at his or her post, for the solemn occasion.