native
adjective
being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being.
nativeness
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a word derived from
native.
Example Sentences
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These he painted with a kind of primitive expressionism, for "nativeness is built of such primitive things."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Yes," he replied in gentle and lingering tones, and its nativeness.
From In the Wilderness by Charles Dudley Warner
