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publicness

[ puhb-lik-nis ]

noun

  1. the quality or state of being public or being owned by the public.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of publicness1

First recorded in 1595–1605; public + -ness
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Example Sentences

And flitting uniquely through it all was this man whose privacy was so public, whose publicness was so unutterably private.

It is not the mere publicness of the teaching, which must tell us what is unlawful for a layman.

Were not his objections as to the publicness of the place, I asked him, as strong now as before?

There was a formality and publicness about it that kind of weakened my nerve.

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