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
We should be more critical of appeals to the publicness of data to justify its collection, use, and disclosure.
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
Were not his objections as to the publicness of the place, I asked him, as strong now as before?
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson
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