Suburbanness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being suburban. uncountable
"The spot, however, was very likely twenty-five years since a pleasant little bit of rural suburbanness, and still, until the recent railway changes, retained, to an eye able to see it, something of its old character in the little detached cottages, with the little patches of garden before most of them."
Example
More examples"The spot, however, was very likely twenty-five years since a pleasant little bit of rural suburbanness, and still, until the recent railway changes, retained, to an eye able to see it, something of its old character in the little detached cottages, with the little patches of garden before most of them."
Etymology
From suburban + -ness.
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