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placeness

placeness noun: the quality of being a place.

Noun

placeness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a place.
    • In the next section I will address how place is conceived as home through deciphering constructions of placeness and homeness as relating to belongingness in the 'here and there'.2006, Anastasia Christou, Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity: Second-Generation Greek-Americans Return 'Home'

Origin of placeness

From place + -ness.

Questions about placeness

What does placeness mean?
Placeness means the quality of being a place.
What part of speech is placeness?
Placeness is a noun.

Words near placeness in the dictionary

  1. placemongers
  2. placename
  3. placenames
  4. Placencia
  5. Placencias
  6. placeness
  7. placenta
  8. placenta cake
  9. placenta cakes
  10. placenta praevia
  11. placenta praevias

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