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NATIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nativeness mean? 

NATIVENESS (noun)
  The noun NATIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or originplay

  Familiarity information: NATIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NATIVENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("nativeness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nativeness"):

autochthony; endemism; indigenousness (nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place))

Antonym:

foreignness (the quality of being alien or not native)

Derivation:

native (belonging to one by birth)

native (characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin)

native (characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning)

native (as found in nature in the elemental form)


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