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indoorness

indoorness noun: the characteristic of being indoors, or of tending to stay indoors, especially when considered undesirable.

Noun

indoorness (uncountable)

  1. The characteristic of being indoors, or of tending to stay indoors, especially when considered undesirable.
    • Homes, that is to say, in which the only possible home-life is within the walls; the only possible family-life as much doomed to indoorness by the inexorable architectural fact as by the Eastern fact of climate.1899, The Land of Sunshine, page 27
    • One obvious and indisputable advantage of the inclusion of military subjects and training in our school curricula would be the correction of the dreadful tendency toward “indoorness” and desk- and book-work of our present system.1916, Good Housekeeping, page 171

Examples of indoorness in a sentence

  • In our northern climate the human race after a period of active outdoorness or migration, seems to revert to such a condition of indoorness.1935, A Handbook of Summer Camps: An Annual Survey:
  • Larks was right in bemoaning his indoorness.2011, Maggie Pouncey, Perfect Reader, Anchor, →ISBN, page 231:
  • The sickening indoorness of the whole thing.2020, Peter Unwin, Written in Stone, Cormorant Books, →ISBN:

Origin of indoorness

From indoor + -ness.

Questions about indoorness

What does indoorness mean?
Indoorness means the characteristic of being indoors, or of tending to stay indoors, especially when considered undesirable.
How do you use indoorness in a sentence?
In our northern climate the human race after a period of active outdoorness or migration, seems to revert to such a condition of indoorness.
What part of speech is indoorness?
Indoorness is a noun.

Words near indoorness in the dictionary

  1. indoor relief
  2. indoor rowing
  3. indoor soccer
  4. indoor voice
  5. indoor voices
  6. indoorness
  7. Indooroopilly
  8. indoors
  9. indoors voice
  10. indoors voices
  11. indoorsman

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