homelike
adjective
like or suggestive of home; familiar; warmly comfortable.
homelikeness
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a word derived from
homelike.
Example Sentences
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Two springs ago a friend visited him in his Manhattan hotel room, complimented the apartment on its books, pictures, flowers, its homelikeness.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great square house was lighted and warmed, and the homelikeness of the place appealed to him as it never had before.
From The Grafters by Francis Lynde
The rough clapboards and beams of the ceiling and walls had never been plastered, and this very crudity seemed somehow to give the room an air of warmth and homelikeness that was very inviting.
From The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls by Laura Lee Hope
To many a sufferer, coming there in dread and foreboding, the sight of a child familiar and happy about the great building brought a feeling of comfort and homelikeness which nothing else could have given.
From Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch by Evelyn Raymond
Mrs. Bailey had given them a few things to add to the homelikeness of their living-rooms, and they were quite comfortably settled, and getting along as happily as could be asked for.
From The Hero of Hill House by Mabel Hale
