Jewishness

[ joo-ish-nis ]

noun

1. the state or quality of being Jewish.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Jewishness¹

First recorded in 1540–50; Jewish + -ness

Example Sentences

Fellow comedians — many of them Jewish — roasted Davis for combining Blackness and Jewishness.

From Washington Post

While American nativism and anti-Semitism declined after World War II, so did the overt Jewishness of Superman.

From The Daily Beast

What was it about the era—and Jews in particular—that made modernism and Jewishness such a good match?

From The Daily Beast

And so the Jewishness of modernism was written out of the history in a way.

From The Daily Beast

The primarily Orthodox audience approved of both men's definition of Jewishness.

From The Daily Beast

Writers of the Gospel made a conscious decision to continually downplay not only his Jewishness but also his revolutionary zeal.

From The Daily Beast

This proof of her Jewishness passed unquestioned, and the new-born horror subsided.

From Project Gutenberg

They say, people throw off their Jewishness on board ship as soon as the sea gives them a toss.

From Project Gutenberg

Hence, if the Freemasons took the Temple from them, it was innocent of Jewishness.

From Project Gutenberg

And he disliked, while he secretly acknowledged, his own Jewishness.

From Project Gutenberg

Isaacson's mind asked that question, and his Jewishness replied.

From Project Gutenberg