indigenousness
- noun
- /ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəsnəs/
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indigenidad
- The indigenousness of the plants in this region ensures a unique ecosystem.
Examples
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The festival celebrated the indigenousness of the local tribes and their rich cultural heritage.
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Understanding the indigenousness of a community helps in preserving its traditions and history.
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As "Indigenousness" is defined as being partly the product of active contention, the specific meaning itself must also be in contention.
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Given the uproar that Corpus Christi caused, it is significant that these portraits do not emphasize their sitters' indigenousness.
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Her nudity is consonant with Greco-Roman style, yet it also aligns the figure with older tropes, validating the theme of indigenousness.
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"We are all foreign-born or the descendants of foreign loom," wrote Bourne, "and if distinctions are to be made between us, they should rightly be on some other ground than indigenousness."
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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A state of being native to a place and keeping the culture and rights of the local people
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Native to and found only in one area
The quality of being born in a place and belonging to it
The condition of being native to a place since earliest times
Being unchanged since the earliest times
Antonyms
How Native
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Surface Forms
Morphology
indigenousness = indigenous (transparent) = indigenous + ness
Standard nominalization from the adjective 'indigenous' with '-ness'; the meaning ('state of being indigenous') is directly derivable from the adjective.
Etymology
The word indigenousness comes from parts meaning in- 'in' and a root meaning 'born', and you can think of the same idea in generate ('to bring into being'). So indigenousness is the quality of being native or 'born there'.