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NATIVENESS
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I. (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)
