What's the plural form of indigenousness? Here's the word you're looking for.
Answer
The noun indigenousness can be countable or uncountable.
In more general, commonly used, contexts, the plural form will also be indigenousness.
However, in more specific contexts, the plural form can also be indigenousnesses e.g. in reference to various types of indigenousnesses
or a collection of indigenousnesses.
Examples
Indigenous women can bring a great deal of controversy to debates of more mainstream women's organizations by challenging notions of indigenousness and privilege.
The project also becomes as much about feminist concerns as about indigenousness and political issues.
It's really a movement to revive the indigenousness and the thinking of indigenous Papua New Guineans in the whole process of development.
Yet indigenousness has acquired a moral aura, not only among those claiming such status, but among observers and scholars as well.
For example, some museum curators are expected to address criteria such as national identity and indigenousness.
This key issue may soon demand as much anthropological discussion, research and problematising as indigenousness and the colour bar have in the past.
