nativeness

Etymology

From native + -ness.

nativeness means The state or condition of being native. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

The state or condition of being native.“And yet it was not quite true to say there were almost no natives, nativeness being a relative matter, and many others considered themselves native to this country, by which they meant that they or their parents or their grandparents or the grandparents of their grandparents had been born on the strip of land that stretched from the mid-northern Pacific to the mid-northern Atlantic, that their exi”