NOUN | attribute | nativeness | the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin |
---|
Meaning | The quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin. | |
---|---|---|
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 |
©2001-24 · HyperDic hyper-dictionary · Contact