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NORTHERNNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does northernness mean? 

NORTHERNNESS (noun)
  The noun NORTHERNNESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of being to the northplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


NORTHERNNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being to the north

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)

Antonym:

southernness (the property of being to the south)

Derivation:

northern (coming from the north; used especially of wind)


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