outdoorsiness

Noun

outdoorsiness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being outdoorsy.
   • “You’re getting brown, Patty,” said Roger, looking admiringly at the tanned face. / “Yes, it’s outdoorsiness as does it! I swim and walk, and play tennis and go motoring all day long, and I sleep on a veranda at night.”1911, Carolyn Wells, “The First Arrivals”, in Patty’s Motor Car, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, pages 160–161
   • I felt that they had come from a jolly good romp somewhere—on the shore, probably, tossing balls to each other and wading and maybe uproariously burying one of the stouter men in the sand and dancing around him. / In spite of their outdoorsiness, however, none of them looked healthy. The men were...1946, Patrick Quentin [pseudonym; Richard Wilson Webb and Hugh Callingham Wheeler], Love Is a Deadly Weapon, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, Inc., published 1949, page 155