locality Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a surrounding or nearby region
    neck of the woods; neighborhood; vicinity; neighbourhood.
    • the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville
    • it is a rugged locality
    • he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
    • I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods

WordNet

Lo*cal"i*ty noun
Etymology
L. localitas: cf. F. localité.
Wordforms
plural Localitiees
Definitions
  1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
    It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality. Glanvill.
  2. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
  3. Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial. Blackstone.
  4. (Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

Webster 1913