rootedness
- a word derived from rooted.
Example Sentences
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His rootedness would prove costly after the war, despite his insistence that he was only serving music.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
As a renter, I don’t perhaps have the same sense of rootedness that those who have invested a portion of their life savings into home ownership.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2025
It is not just a business, but an identity, a belonging, a geographical rootedness – and the prospect of not being able to pass it on generates huge anger and emotion.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2024
If anything I’ve said about rootedness, a sense of place, or identity has an ounce of truth, Vance’s story and celebration of his rise out of dysfunction rejects that as a core value.
From Salon • Aug. 21, 2024
And ever since we began to incur the condescension of foreigners by trying to be American, we have been conscious of this weak- rootedness in our literature and trying to remedy it.
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Canby, Henry Seidel
