Pronunciations

Definitions

• n. Niceness, kindness, decency, humaneness.
  

Example Sentences

Languages of Origin

• Yiddish

Etymology

• מענטשלעכקײט mentschlekhkait
  

Who Uses This

• Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
• Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

Regions

• North America

Dictionaries

• Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
• The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).

Alternative Spellings

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