officialness

English

Etymology

From official +‎ -ness.

Noun

officialness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being official.
   • 2009 August 13, “Critics' choice”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     For Canadian artists in particular, though, labouring in the chilly isolation that is our institutional culture, rejection has a numbing air of officialness.