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NORTHERNNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does northernness mean?
• NORTHERNNESS (noun)
The noun NORTHERNNESS has 1 sense:
1. the property of being to the north
Familiarity information: NORTHERNNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being to the north
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("northernness" is a kind of...):
position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)
Antonym:
southernness (the property of being to the south)
Derivation:
northern (coming from the north; used especially of wind)
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