inlandness

For it must be confessed that there are minds in this world which are too shallow to be violently stirred, either by good or ill. They dwell in a recess of the bay. The storms of life sweep overhead and leave them quite untouched. [...] They are sheltered by their own inlandness.

1900, George Matheson, Sidelights from Patmos, pages 62–63

Their being from the West, their “inlandness,” has been their protection before, for they still try to abide by the more charitable view of human relations that developed out of the sense of community in Ontauk.

1974, Barbara McKenzie, The Process of Fiction: Contemporary Stories and Criticism

The pronounced inlandness of the Caribou Eskimos is thus seen to have developed over two centuries, depending substantially on the acquisition of firearms.

1975, Eugene Yuji Arima, A contextual study of the Caribou Eskimo kayak, page 221

Bearing in mind the fact that we have used the mountainousness index in lieu of the inlandness of a region, we can conclude that the funds collected by the CRA, as compared with the banking system, increase progressively as the «inlandness» of the area increases in the South and instead decrease^([sic]) in the North.

1987, Journal of Regional policy, page 632

From what we have already discussed about the Highlands sites, the ‘inlandness’ of Panakiwuk and Balof 2, respectively 4 km and 2 km from the coast, can only be considered trifling.

1993, Matthew Spriggs, A Community of Culture: The People and Prehistory of the Pacific, page 144