Indoorness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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
More examples"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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