aboriginalness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
aboriginal + -ness
Noun[edit]
aboriginalness (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being aboriginal.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- […] those insulated, immemorial, unalterable countries, which even in these modern days still preserve much of the ghostly aboriginalness of earth's primal generations […]
Translations[edit]
state or condition of being aboriginal
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