Suburbanness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"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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