'anticommercialness' originates from multiple elements in different source languages: the prefix 'anti-' (from Greek 'anti') meaning 'against', the adjective 'commercial' (ultimately from Latin 'commercium' via French 'commercial'), and the noun-forming suffix '-ness' (from Old English '-nes(s)') meaning 'state' or 'quality'.

'commercial' came into English via Old French 'commercial' from Latin 'commercialis' (related to 'commercium' meaning 'trade' or 'commerce'); the combining prefix 'anti-' (Greek) has been used in English since Classical/Modern periods to form oppositional compounds; adding the Old English-derived suffix '-ness' to an adjective produced nouns denoting state or quality, yielding the modern compound 'anticommercialness'.

Initially, the roots referred to 'against' (anti-), 'trade/commerce' (commercium), and 'state/quality' (-ness); over time the combined form came to mean specifically 'the state or quality of opposing commercialization' in modern English usage.