Dominicanness

English

Etymology

From Dominican +‎ -ness.

Noun

Dominicanness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being Dominican.
    • 2007, Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Faber and Faber (2009), page 30:
      Oscar lost the mustache next, and then the glasses, bought contacts with the money he was making at the lumberyard and tried to polish up what remained of his Dominicanness, tried to be more like his cursing swaggering cousins, if only because he had started to suspect that in their Latin hypermaleness there might be an answer.
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