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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

localness en · NOUN

Etymology

From local + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being local.
    • Localness and local-sounding speech can become a commodity, and this, as we have seen, can create competition over the control of what localness means or over its uses. 2004, Ronald K S Macaulay, Carmen Fought, Sociolinguistic variation: critical reflections: