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Meaning of "folkishness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FOLKISHNESS

folkishness  [ˈfəʊkɪʃnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOLKISHNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Folkishness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FOLKISHNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of folkishness in the English dictionary

The definition of folkishness in the dictionary is the state of being folkish.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FOLKISHNESS


blockishness
ˈblɒkɪʃnəs
blokeishness
ˈbləʊkɪʃnəs
blokishness
ˈbləʊkɪʃnəs
brackishness
ˈbrækɪʃnəs
duskishness
ˈdʌskɪʃnəs
freakishness
ˈfriːkɪʃnəs
gawkishness
ˈɡɔːkɪʃnəs
hawkishness
ˈhɔːkɪʃnəs
larkishness
ˈlɑːkɪʃnəs
monkishness
ˈmʌŋkɪʃnəs
peckishness
ˈpɛkɪʃnəs
pinkishness
ˈpɪŋkɪʃnəs
prankishness
ˈpræŋkɪʃnəs
puckishness
ˈpʌkɪʃnəs
rakishness
ˈreɪkɪʃnəs
sneakishness
ˈsniːkɪʃnəs
stockishness
ˈstɒkɪʃnəs
trickishness
ˈtrɪkɪʃnəs
Turkishness
ˈtɜːkɪʃnəs
weakishness
ˈwiːkɪʃnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOLKISHNESS

folk tale
folk weave
folk wisdom
folk-dance
folk-rock
Folkestone
Folketing
folkie
folkies
folkish
folkland
folklife
folklike
folklore
folkloric
folklorish
folklorist
folkloristic
folkmoot
folkmot

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOLKISHNESS

Britishness
business
Caithness
childishness
foolishness
foppishness
freshness
harshness
highness
Jewishness
lushness
much of a muchness
rashness
richness
roughness
selfishness
smoothness
stylishness
thoroughness
toughness
unselfishness

Synonyms and antonyms of folkishness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «folkishness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOLKISHNESS

Find out the translation of folkishness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of folkishness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «folkishness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

folkishness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

folkishness
570 millions of speakers

English

folkishness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

folkishness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

folkishness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

folkishness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

folkishness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

folkishness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

folkishness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Folkishness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

folkishness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

folkishness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

folkishness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Folkishness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

folkishness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

folkishness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लोकशक्ति
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

folkishness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

folkishness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

folkishness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

folkishness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

folkishness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

folkishness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

folkishness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

folkishness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

folkishness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of folkishness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FOLKISHNESS»

The term «folkishness» is used very little and occupies the 191.507 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FOLKISHNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «folkishness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «folkishness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about folkishness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOLKISHNESS»

Discover the use of folkishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to folkishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Northern Traditions
However, where there is no universalism in Folkishness, nor is there value judgment attached to any Folk or that Folk's faith: each Folk's faith is its own, and equal in its superiority to universal faiths, and likewise each Folk's faith is more ...
Gwendolyn Taunton, 2011
2
The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History
He replied that he had not intended to speak of these matters, but yes, of course there were differences between Danes and Norwegians; and "If I have the right to speak of Danish and Norwegian folkishness in contrast to the common Nordic ...
Jonathan Wylie, 1987
3
Authorial Fictions: Literary and Public Personas in Modern ...
Brenner commends a very different kind of amamiyut [folkishness] in Agnon's fiction than he had extolled in Sholem Aleykhem's work. According to Brenner, Sholem Aleykhem is noteworthy for his "authentic" folkishness and not, in Brenner's ...
Naomi Rebecca Brenner, 2008
4
A Rhetorical Conversation: Jewish Discourse in Modern ...
It was more than a translation (iberzetsung); it was, in Yankev Shatski's memorable phrase, a ''trans-poetification'' (iberdikh- tung).10 The key aspects of this idea were folkishness and simplicity. In both of these aspects it seems that the ...
Jordan D. Finkin, 2010
5
Popular Music and Human Rights: World music
Expressing folkishness, such a practice existed in all Soviet republics and was introduced into the occupied Baltic states (Vertkov et al., 1975, pp. 14-15). The best-known result of folk music instrument modernization in Latvia is the concert ...
Ian Peddie, 2011
6
Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume II: World Music
Expressing folkishness, such a practice existed in all Soviet republics and was introduced into the occupied Baltic states (Vertkov et al., 1975, pp. 14-15). The best-known result of folk music instrument modernization in Latvia is the concert ...
Professor Ian Peddie, 2013
7
The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the ...
Before expiring into pure folkishness, the tradition was given a final and powerful shot in the arm by the popular works of Lavater. Folkishness or not, however, there can be little doubt that the lingering appeal of a science that read the marks of ...
David Freedberg, 2003
8
Popular Music and Human Rights
Expressing folkishness, such a practice existed in all Soviet republics and was introduced into the occupied Baltic states (Vertkov et al., 1975, pp. 14-15). The best-known result of folk music instrument modernization in Latvia is the concert ...
Ian Peddie, 2011
9
Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry
The "folkishness" of a "folkish" science calls itself and the science as a whole into question, since for Heidegger the rootedness of a "folkish" science is the originarity that is conferred upon it in its questioning concerning the originarity ...
James Phillips, 2005
10
Grieg: Music, Landscape and Norwegian Identity
Hence, the 'essential' folkishness of Chopin's mazurkas becomes an ' essentialised' one in Grieg's op. 17. But Milewski 's conclusion, that 'in the end, Chopin, like so many of his European compatriots, was not interested in recovering rural ...
Daniel M. Grimley, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOLKISHNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term folkishness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Olly Murs review – unbridled enthusiasm and chutzpah from the …
... confident support act Ella Eyre, lends an appealing folkishness; Dance With Me Tonight's doo-wop chirpiness is Murs at his ebullient peak. «The Guardian, May 15»
2
Classical review: Brodsky Quartet, Auckland Town Hall
The quartet did full justice to Beethoven's instruction, "with the deepest feeling," in the Adagio molto as well as evoking an eerie folkishness in ... «New Zealand Herald, Apr 15»
3
Britten Sinfonia, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, review
And in the arrangements of Five Chorale Preludes by Brahms, the folkishness disappeared altogether, and Kopatchinskaja suddenly became a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 14»
4
YouTube shares royalty-free 'Muzak' library to help amateur film …
... 'family video' and indeed, the track's jangly, upbeat folkishness is instantly recognisable from any number of comfortable adverts trying to sell ... «The Independent, Sep 13»
5
Folk and Acoustic Music Festival
... with such charisma and charm that even the most sceptical of people could enjoy its folkishness. Du Preez's girlish country allure and Lund's ... «Artslink.co.za News, Jul 13»
6
Russia's Double-Headed Government
The ideology is reminiscent of the late-nineteenth-century czarist slogan of "Orthodoxy, autocracy and folkishness (narodnost)," which ... «The National Interest Online, May 12»
7
FOLLOW JR MOORES FOLLOW LEE RANALDO
'Hammer Blows' has a Bert Jansch-y folkishness and 'Stranded', like some of Stephen Malkmus' recent output, strives to evoke Neil Young at ... «Drowned In Sound, Mar 12»
8
The Many Lives of Tracy Newman
When college called, Tracy wandered through the desert to the University of Arizona in Tucson where folkishness was rampant, but soon the ... «The Morton Report, Aug 11»
9
Interplay of Antiquity With Some Modernity
... in a line of brisk appoggiatura figures — and the work's construction, in four sections that embrace both formality and folkishness, created the ... «New York Times, Feb 10»
10
Pacifica Quartet scales the Everest of Beethoven's Op. 130
11) seemed to prefigure the folkishness of the German Dance fourth movement of the Beethoven Quartet. The more substantial Higdon work, ... «Chicago Classical Review, Jan 10»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Folkishness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/folkishness>. Apr 2024 ».
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