"indoorness" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: indoor + -ness Etymology templates: {{af|en|indoor|-ness}} indoor + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} indoorness (uncountable)
  1. The characteristic of being indoors, or of tending to stay indoors, especially when considered undesirable. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-indoorness-en-noun-Q3mrxNxj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

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          "ref": "1899, The Land of Sunshine, page 27",
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          "text": "Malice, then, would be commensurate with the crime. Flora would not sit around awaiting the next batch of accusations. Larks was right in bemoaning his indoorness. It was the perfect day for a bike ride: new, breezy, ice blue.",
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          "ref": "2020, Peter Unwin, Written in Stone, Cormorant Books",
          "text": "The sickening indoorness of the whole thing. That's what it was. That is what kills me, he told her. It kills every one of us. The damn indoorness of our lives. “The indoor man in his head is dead. So there,” he announced.",
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