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Noun: Scottishness
  1. The state or quality of being Scottish.
    "Indeed the formation of these regiments helped to unite the Highlanders and Lowlanders, and give them a shared sense of "Scottishness", by changing the image of Highlanders from being backward and savage, to being "the very embodiment of Scotland" (which became clearly evident during the Romanticist period in Scotland)."

Type of: property

Encyclopedia: Scottishness