indoorness

English

Etymology

indoor +‎ -ness

Noun

indoorness (uncountable)

1. The characteristic of being indoors, or of tending to stay indoors, especially when considered undesirable.
   • 1899, The Land of Sunshine, page 27:

     Homes, that is to say, in which the only possible home-life is within the walls; the only possible family-life as much doomed to indoorness by the inexorable architectural fact as by the Eastern fact of climate.

   • 1916, Good Housekeeping, page 171:

     One obvious and indisputable advantage of the inclusion of military subjects and training in our school curricula would be the correction of the dreadful tendency toward “indoorness” and desk- and book-work of our present system.

   • 1935, A Handbook of Summer Camps: An Annual Survey:

     In our northern climate the human race after a period of active outdoorness or migration, seems to revert to such a condition of indoorness. Our species, of tropical origin, takes to the open, only under unusual conditions of pressure […]

   • 2011, Maggie Pouncey, Perfect Reader, Anchor, →ISBN, page 231:

     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.

   • 2020, Peter Unwin, Written in Stone, Cormorant Books, →ISBN:

     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.