placeness

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English

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Etymology

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From place +‎ -ness.

Noun

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placeness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a place.
    • 2006, Anastasia Christou, Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity: Second-Generation Greek-Americans Return 'Home':
      In the next section I will address how place is conceived as home through deciphering constructions of placeness and homeness as relating to belongingness in the 'here and there'.
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