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) |
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Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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Opposite | foreignness, strangeness, curiousness | The quality of being alien or not native |
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Adjectives | native | characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin |
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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 |