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Locale vs Locality - What's the difference?

locale | locality |

As nouns the difference between locale and locality

is that locale is the place where something happens while locality is the fact or quality of having a position in space.

locale

English

(wikipedia locale)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The place where something happens.
    • Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.
  • (computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, paper format, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.

    • locality

    English

    Noun

    (localities)
  • The fact or quality of having a position in space.
  • * Glanvill
    • It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality .
  • (p) The features or surroundings of a particular place.
  • The situation or position of an object.
  • An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
  • Limitation to a county, district, or place.
    • locality of trial
    (Blackstone)
  • (dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

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