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unhousedness en · NOUN

Etymology

From unhoused + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being unhoused.
    • To provide a focus for this concept, George Steiner introduces the idea of extra-territoriality, explained in the foreword and the first essay as the emergence of linguistic “unhousedness” in great writers. 1972, The Tablet, volume 226, page 546:
    • There is not only an unhousedness in language — how to convey, to say nothing of converge — but an unhousedness of place. 2009 March 1, The Editors, “Up Front: Joy Williams”, in New York Times: