Yankeedom
nounEtymology From Yankee + -dom.
1
The region inhabited by Yankees.
2
The condition, state, sphere, or influence of Yankees or of being a Yankee.
- Our civilization, with all its aspirations, is industrial and commercial — and there is no morality in that competition worth priding ourselves upon. It isn't Yankeedom more than it is Anglodom.1910, Lafcadio Hearn, Elizabeth Bisland, The Japanese letters of Lafcadio Hearn:
3
Yankees collectively.