same-bloodedness

English

Alternative forms

  • samebloodedness

Etymology

From same-blooded + -ness.

Noun

same-bloodedness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being same-blooded; consanguinity; homogeneity.
    • 2009, Paul Cartledge, Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities:
      At any rate, this does tend to put in truer perspective the symbolic claim placed by Herodotus in the mouth of 'the Athenians'—also Ionians—in 480/479, that the fact of being Greek was constituted in essential part by 'same-bloodedness'.
    • 2010, Petre Pan, The How Not To Blog: The Economic Testing Ground:
      Even the style bears similarity, and, as Shin explains, both appealed to the 'same bloodedness' of the Korean people.
    • 2012, Sanja Bahun, Dušan Radunović, Language Ideology and the Human New Interventions:
      The idea that the Bible develops the same logic of the political privilege given to the natives as compared with the strangers, the Greek theme of the suggegenia, the same-bloodedness, as a necessary condition for the equality in the dēmos, []
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