NATIVENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)