Maggie was always single, always withheld. . . . It was during this winter that Ursula suffered and enjoyed most keenly Maggie's fundamental sadness of enclosedness.
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Enclosedness
Synonyms for "enclosedness" (6 found)
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We must ask, first, whether our privacy — call it our distance or enclosedness or unknowability with respect to others — is elected or inevitable.
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I was thinking about the moment when that enclosedness, which can be protective, tips over into something menacing and unpleasant.
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