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Can anyone tell me please whether this is a bonafide word?
Indigineity
I have heard it but don't believe it.
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it seems to be used in some contexts as the quality of being indigenous. (cf. paneity), so it should be spelled indigeneity (or more better, indigenousness).
-joe (what's in a word?) friday
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Can anyone tell me please whether this is a bonafide word?
Indigineity
I have heard it but don't believe it. I've seen it more often than I've seen indigenousness, and prefer it aurally, too.
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381 Ghits tho I'm not sure if that means anything
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formerly known as etaoin...
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ditto. It's fodder for a double-dactyl! 
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Kia ora all,
Thanks for your replys. Without trying to be too puristic, I am of the mind that 'Indigenity' is correct as I cannot find 'Indigeneity' in the dictionary. I am currently editing a television article on the use of the word 'Native' and noted the word Indigeneity sliding into conversation. Is it perhaps that it is aurally and orally prettier?
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>I cannot find 'Indigeneity' in the dictionary.
here we are again, in the "dictionary." well, according to OED3, indigenity is just as rare as indigenousness -- each with exactly one citation.
but let's take a look at the story of the search:
indigeneity - 105,000 ghits (0 OneLook hits.. but soon to change!)
indigenousness - 58,600 gh (6 OneLook hits)
indigenity - 750 gh (1 OneLook hit)
-joe (with head too far in dictionary) friday
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Sounds like it ought to mean ancestors or relatives looking down on us (from heaven?) and who are miffed by our behavior
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