What does belonging mean?
Belonging means (uncountable) The feeling that one belongs..
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/bɪˈlɒŋɪŋ/ · noun
(uncountable) The feeling that one belongs..
I have a feeling of belonging in London.
A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.
Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.
[…] Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
In the little houses the tenant people sifted their belongings and the belongings of their fathers and of their grandfathers. Picked over their possessions for the journey to the west.
Now, upstairs, she changed into faded Levis and a green sweater, and fastened round her wrist her third most valued belonging, a gold watch […]
When Lady Kew said Sic volo, sic jubeo [Thus I will, thus I command], I promise you few persons of her ladyship’s belongings stopped, before they did her biddings, to ask her reasons.
As soon as the principal personages were seated, the verandah of the house was filled silently by the muffled-up forms of Lakamba’s female belongings.
Use belonging when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Belonging means (uncountable) The feeling that one belongs..
Common synonyms include possession, thing.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I have a feeling of belonging in London.
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