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in-ness

American  
[in-nis] / ˈɪn nɪs /

noun

Informal.
  1. the state or quality of being fashionable.

    the in-ness of his new wardrobe.

  2. the state or quality of being part of a select or exclusive group.

    her in-ness with the literary crowd.


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Working with the editor Andrei Bogdanov, Mr. Faraut creates montages of Mr. McEnroe’s hopping into a backhand, over and over, of his dam-bursting tirades about the in-ness and out-ness of balls on the clay court.

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2018

Oh to know the "in-ness" of the Holy Ghost.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

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