unhousedness

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noun

The quality of being unhoused.

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Meanings

noununhousedness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being unhoused.

    There is not only an unhousedness in language — how to convey, to say nothing of converge — but an unhousedness of place.

    2009 March 1, The Editors, “Up Front: Joy Williams”, in New York Times
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    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.

    1972, The Tablet, volume 226, page 546

Origin

From unhoused + -ness.

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APA

unhousedness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhousedness

MLA

“unhousedness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhousedness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unhousedness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhousedness.

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