Definition of "nativeness" [na•tive•ness]

• The state or condition of being native. (noun)

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• "THOUGH BOTANISTS first started talking about the idea of nativeness back in the 1830s, for most of history people didn't worry much about the risks of species moving from one place to another."
• "The only group of foreigners to have the remotest claim to "nativeness" were the The Samanids (819-999), who were the first in centuries to use Farsi as an official language in centuries and they hired the poet Ferdowsi to write the Persian national epic, Shahnama: The Epic of the KIngs which has been the core of Persian education ever since."
• "Recent papers arguing for the nativeness of L. littorea is Cunningham 2008 and for its exoticness are Chapman et al."