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Sundayness

Sundayness noun: the quality of being a Sunday, or like a Sunday.

Noun

Sundayness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a Sunday, or like a Sunday.
    • The peculiar Sundayness of it. The one thing that took him in revulsion back to England: Sunday dinner. The England he didn't want to be taken back to.1924, D. H. Lawrence, The Boy in the Bush
    • Sundayness implies no work, a special meal, a feeling of family and friends together.2022, Gregory Claeys, Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life After Consumerism, page 130

Origin of Sundayness

From Sunday + -ness.

Questions about Sundayness

What does Sundayness mean?
Sundayness means the quality of being a Sunday, or like a Sunday.
What part of speech is Sundayness?
Sundayness is a noun.

Words near Sundayness in the dictionary

  1. Sundaying
  2. Sundayish
  3. Sundayism
  4. Sundayisms
  5. Sundaylike
  6. Sundayness
  7. Sundays
  8. Sundberg
  9. Sundbergs
  10. Sundby
  11. Sundbys

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