suburbanness

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English

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Etymology

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From suburban +‎ -ness.

Noun

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suburbanness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being suburban.
    • 1865 November, “Mr. Dickens's Romance of a Dust-Heap”, in The Eclectic Review, volume 9, number 53:
      The spot, however, was very likely twenty-five years since a pleasant little bit of rural suburbanness, and still, until the recent railway changes, retained, to an eye able to see it, something of its old character in the little detached cottages, with the little patches of garden before most of them.