publicness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of publicness
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The activity in wimmelbooks also has a healthy, comfortable publicness, almost as if people on the pages realize the walls of their houses are transparent — and they don’t mind.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2018
“It’s just a caffeine delivery mechanism — there’s nothing much to it, in and of itself. It’s the consumption, the publicness of it.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2017
But this definition of publicness breaks down quickly under scrutiny.
From Slate ● May 19, 2016
People are wielding the notion of publicness as a sort of trump-all-rebuttals talisman to justify privacy invasions.
From Slate ● May 19, 2016
It is necessary that the meetings be as public, as they can be with conveniency and prudence; yea, simple hazard should no more hinder their publicness and solemnity, than their being at all.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
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