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SOUTHERNNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being to the south
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("southernness" is a kind of...):
position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)
Antonym:
northernness (the property of being to the north)
Derivation:
southern (from the south; used especially of wind)
southern (situated in or oriented toward the south)
southern (situated in or coming from regions of the south)