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Publicness

Publicness \Pub"lic*ness\, n.

  1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale.

  2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property.
    --Boyle.

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publicness

n. The quality or state of being public.

Usage examples of "publicness".

Caroline quite liked the small-town life of the arrangement despite the publicness of all the comings and goings beneath the palms.

Given the nature of their silk, which is usually diaphanous, and the general scantiness of their garb, and the publicness of their picking up the coins, there is little danger that they could conceal a coin, even if they dared to do so.

Those buildings too had screamed their importance, but there had been something different in all of them, some quality of publicness that the J Corporation tower lacked.