publicness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of publicness
Example Sentences
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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
Instead, it embraces the publicness as a question of policy.
From Slate • May 19, 2016
When people collecting and sharing information invoke its publicness, what they usually mean is that their actions are justified because what they collected or shared could not be considered “private.”
From Slate • May 19, 2016
There was a formality and publicness about it that kind of weakened my nerve.
From Options by Henry, O.
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