A sense of belonging. The attribute of a thing that identifies it as being a part of something else, or of an entity or group. Belongingness may be attributed to a thing or a person because of certain marked features or characteristics that are identified as unique to a particular group. Hence it may be inferred that a person has a sense of belongingness with group X because he acts or looks like the members of group X..

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