northernness

IPA: nˈɔrðɝnnʌs

The state or quality of being northern.
A fascination with the northern lands of Britain and Scandinavia, but also a sense of longing for an unattainable, imaginary world.

Examples of "northernness" in Sentences

It leads back, for example, to ideas about the nature of northernness, to the Idea of North
I loved them for many reasons – for their melodies, of course, and for their humour and their wit, and for their northernness.
True to my roots, I pronounce bath with the TRAP vowel as John Wells says in Accents of English, it would seem a denial of my northernness to change this.
But Hockney, to whom success came early, swiftly became the nice gay-boy-next-door, with his bleached thatch and owlish glasses; his down-to-earth northernness undoubtedly helped.