Jewishness

English

Etymology

From Jewish +‎ -ness.

Noun

Jewishness (usually uncountable, plural Jewishnesses)

1. The property of being Jewish.

   Synonyms: Jewhood, Jewship

   • 1982 August 14, Andrea Fred Loewenstein, Evelyn Torton Beck, “Bringing it all Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 8:

     When I first knew you I was struck by your pride in your Jewishness, but as far as I knew you weren't yet a lesbian. Can you ttell me something about how you came to terms with these two parts of yourself?

   • 2023 April 4, Harmeet Kaur, “What does it mean to be Jewish in the US?”, in CNN‎:

     When Zack Galifianakis asks Paul Rudd about his Jewishness in “Between Two Ferns: The Movie,” the actor responds with a quip.

Translations

Translations

Bengali: ইহুদিয়ানা (ihudiẏana) Czech: židovství (cs) m Esperanto: judeco Finnish: juutalaisuus (fi) French: judéité (fr) f, judaïté (fr) f (less common) German: Judentum (de) n, Judesein n, Jüdischkeit (de) f Greek: εβραϊκότητα (el) f (evraïkótita), εβραϊσμός (el) m (evraïsmós) Hebrew: יְהוּדִיּוּת f (yehudiyút) Ido: Judeso Indonesian: keyahudian Italian: ebraicità f Japanese: ユダヤ性 (yudayasei) Lithuanian: žydiškùmas m Russian: евре́йскость f (jevréjskostʹ), евре́йство (ru) n (jevréjstvo) Spanish: judeidad f Turkish: Yahudilik (tr) Yiddish: ייִדישקייט (yidishkeyt)

See also

• Jewiness
• Yiddishkeit