Word Study
publicness
CIDE DICTIONARY
publicness, n.
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle. [1913 Webster]
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