insideness

English

Etymology

From inside +‎ -ness.

Noun

insideness (uncountable)

1. The state or condition of being inside.
   • 1995, David R. Shanks, The psychology of associative learning:

     Children as young as four are known to have relational concepts such as insideness, sameness, and so on (eg, Smith, 1989).

   • 1995, Linux Journal, numbers 15-20, page 42:

     If we can establish a point that is guaranteed to be outside of our polygon, we can test the insideness of any point by connecting this test point to our outside point by a straight line and counting the number of times the line crosses the polygon.