Sundayness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Sunday +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

Sundayness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a Sunday, or like a Sunday.
    • 1924, D. H. Lawrence, The Boy in the Bush:
      The peculiar Sundayness of it. The one thing that took him in revulsion back to England: Sunday dinner. The England he didn't want to be taken back to.
    • 2022, Gregory Claeys, Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life After Consumerism, page 130:
      Sundayness implies no work, a special meal, a feeling of family and friends together.
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