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nativenesses

nativenesses is the plural of nativeness.

Meaning of nativeness

Noun

nativeness (countable and uncountable, plural nativenesses)

  1. 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...2017, Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, page 196

Questions about nativenesses

What is nativenesses the plural of?
Nativenesses is the plural of nativeness.

Words near nativenesses in the dictionary

  1. nativehens
  2. nativelike
  3. nativelikeness
  4. natively
  5. nativeness
  6. nativenesses
  7. natives
  8. Natividad
  9. nativisation
  10. nativise
  11. nativised

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