enclosedness
nounEtymology
From enclosed + -ness.
Definitions
The state or characteristic of being confined within actual or figurative boundaries.
- Maggie was always single, always withheld. . . . It was during this winter that Ursula suffered and enjoyed most keenly Maggie's fundamental sadness of enclosedness.
- We must ask, first, whether our privacy — call it our distance or enclosedness or unknowability with respect to others — is elected or inevitable.
- I was thinking about the moment when that enclosedness, which can be protective, tips over into something menacing and unpleasant.
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No curated loop yet for enclosedness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA