Indoorness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The characteristic of being indoors, or of tending to stay indoors, especially when considered undesirable. uncountable

    "Homes, that is to say, in which the only possible home-life is within the walls; the only possible family-life as much doomed to indoorness by the inexorable architectural fact as by the Eastern fact of climate."

Example

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"Homes, that is to say, in which the only possible home-life is within the walls; the only possible family-life as much doomed to indoorness by the inexorable architectural fact as by the Eastern fact of climate."

Etymology

From indoor + -ness.

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