unhousedness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]unhousedness (uncountable)
- The quality of being unhoused.
- 1972, The Tablet, volume 226, page 546:
- To provide a focus for this concept, George Steiner introduces the idea of extra-territoriality, explained in the foreword and the first essay as the emergence of linguistic “unhousedness” in great writers.
- 2009 March 1, The Editors, “Up Front: Joy Williams”, in New York Times[1]:
- There is not only an unhousedness in language — how to convey, to say nothing of converge — but an unhousedness of place.