单词 | indigenousness |
释义 | indigenousnessn. The quality or fact of being indigenous (in various senses); indigenous character, status, or identity. Cf. indigeneity n.In early use chiefly with reference to animal and plant species. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native people > [noun] > fact or quality of being native indigenate1762 nativeness1853 autochthonism1856 nativity1869 indigenity1895 1814 W. Davies Gen. View Agric. & Domest. Econ. S. Wales I. v. 190 Williams..questions the indigenousness of elm among other trees. 1844 Classical Museum 1 45 That there was a peculiar influence exercised over the character of the Greek states by the local features of their respective abodes, seems to be the real ground lying at the root of their favourite idea of indigenousness. 1916 Atlantic Monthly July 87/1 [In an article titled ‘Trans-national America’.] We are all foreign-born or the descendants of foreign-born, and if distinctions are to be made between us they should rightly be on some other ground than indigenousness. 1998 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 92 430 In Malaysia a concept of indigenousness features prominently in political discourse as an underpinning for the bumiputra (son of the soil) policy. 2018 E. Morales Latinx i. 39 Blackness and indigenousness, particularly during the civil rights era, were revalued by Latinx migrants, forming the core of their new, hybrid Latinx-American identity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). < n.1814 |
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