inscape

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noun

A landscape of an indoor setting.

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nouninscape (plural inscapes)

plural inscapes

  1. A landscape of an indoor setting.

    There was a Steinway grand piano [...] a cherrywood writing table, and an assortment of floor lamps, table lamps, and "bridge" lamps that sprang up all over the congested inscape like sumac.

    1957 May 4, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, “Zooey”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: New Yorker Magazine Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32 (start of article)
  2. The distinctive design that constitutes individual identity; a concept derived by Gerard Manley Hopkins from the ideas of the medieval philosopher Duns Scotus.

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APA

inscape. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inscape

MLA

“inscape.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inscape. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inscape,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inscape.

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