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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
negritude is a noun meaning "an ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms; an affirmation of the African cultural heritage". It carries one recorded sense.
an ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms; an affirmation of the African cultural heritage
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for negritude come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.