placeness

English

Etymology

From place +‎ -ness.

Noun

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'.

Related terms

• out-of-placeness