unhousedness

English

Etymology

unhoused +‎ -ness

Noun

unhousedness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being unhoused.
   • 1972, The Tablet, volume 226, page 546:

     To provide a focus for this concept, George Steiner introduces the idea of extra-territoriality, explained in the foreword and the first essay as the emergence of linguistic “unhousedness” in great writers.

   • 2009 March 1, The Editors, “Up Front: Joy Williams”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     There is not only an unhousedness in language — how to convey, to say nothing of converge — but an unhousedness of place.