localness

noun

localness

noun

Etymology From local + -ness.

1

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:

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