marriedness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]marriedness (uncountable)
- The quality of being, or seeming, married.
- 2008, Ali Smith, The first person and other stories:
- Impatience had crossed your face so firmly that I had known, in that instant, that now we were actually a kind of married, and that our marriedness was probably making your real relationship more palatable.
- 2011, Lily King, Father of the Rain, page 140:
- I couldn't stand the sterile marriedness of it. I make sure I don't always sleep on the same side of Jonathan's bed when I stay over. I don't want ritual or routine in a relationship.