Publicness

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The quality or state of being public.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety.
  • n. The quality or state of belonging to the community.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The character of common possession or interest; joint holding: as, the publicness of property.
  • n. Openness or exposure to the notice or knowledge of the community or of people at large; notoriety: as, the publicness of a resort; the publicness of a scandal.
  • Word Usage
    "In his new book, Public Parts, American writer Jeff Jarvis makes the case for what he calls "publicness," an ethic of openness."
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    Words with the same meaning
    publicity    notoriety