localness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

local +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

localness (uncountable)

  1. 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.
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