aboriginalness

English

Etymology

aboriginal +‎ -ness

Noun

aboriginalness (uncountable)

  1. 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 […]

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