| NOUN | attribute | nativeness | the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin |
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| Meaning | The quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin. | |
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| Narrower | indigenousness, autochthony, endemism | nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Opposite | foreignness, strangeness, curiousness | The quality of being alien or not native |
| Adjectives | native | characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin |
| native | characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | |
| native | belonging to one by birth | |
| native | as found in nature in the elemental form | |
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