Officialness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being official. uncountable

    "For Canadian artists in particular, though, labouring in the chilly isolation that is our institutional culture, rejection has a numbing air of officialness."

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"For Canadian artists in particular, though, labouring in the chilly isolation that is our institutional culture, rejection has a numbing air of officialness."

Etymology

From official + -ness.

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