localness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
localness (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being local.
- 2004, Ronald K S Macaulay, Carmen Fought, Sociolinguistic variation: critical reflections:
- Localness and local-sounding speech can become a commodity, and this, as we have seen, can create competition over the control of what localness means or over its uses.