unhousedness

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English

Etymology

From unhoused +‎ -ness.

Noun

unhousedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being unhoused.
    • 1972, The Tablet, volume 226, page 546:
      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.
    • 2009 March 1, The Editors, “Up Front: Joy Williams”, in New York Times:
      There is not only an unhousedness in language — how to convey, to say nothing of converge — but an unhousedness of place.