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rootedness

  • a word derived from rooted.
    rooted
    adjective
    having roots.

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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

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

Hale and others have noted that loyalty and rootedness.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

I think I saw in Andrew a happy rootedness I deeply craved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2023

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 Henry Seidel Canby