enclosedness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The state or characteristic of being confined within actual or figurative boundaries.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Maggie was always single, always withheld. . . . It was during this winter that Ursula suffered and enjoyed most keenly Maggie's fundamental sadness of enclosedness."
- "We must ask, first, whether our privacy — call it our distance or enclosedness or unknowability with respect to others — is elected or inevitable."
- "I was thinking about the moment when that enclosedness, which can be protective, tips over into something menacing and unpleasant."