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Sundayness en · NOUN

Etymology

From Sunday + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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: