rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The property or quality of being southern in character.
1891. Harper’s Mag., Sept., 640/2. It is all very Southern, and nicely differentiated in its Kentucky Southernness from … Louisianian life.
1903. Westm. Gaz., 11 Feb., 2/1. I understood the Southernness of Brive … in this characteristic.
