localness

English

Etymology

From local +‎ -ness.

Noun

localness (uncountable)

1. The state or condition of being local.
   • 2004, Ronald K S Macaulay, Carmen Fought, Sociolinguistic variation: critical reflections:

     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.