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- n. The property of being homey.
Examples
“Mullan’s usage brings up a tangential point: Britons use homeliness for what we would call homeyness.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“But I quickly missed the, well, homeyness of a ringing phone.”
“As a closer, the rich coconut layer cake or the tres leches version, if you decide to go that route manages to pull off homeyness and sophistication at the same time.”
“He glanced around his office, noticing that for all its homeyness—the dark woodwork, the antiquarian books, the framed newspaper advertisements for nineteenth-century elixirs, the glass case of antique stethoscopes, sphygmomanometers, and otoscopes—there were no pictures of anyone who made him look like Baris did now.”
Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
“If their predecessors, the Carters, stood for homeyness, the Reagans were all about fanciness.”
Lesley M. M. Blume: State Dinner Menus of Eras Past: Aspic, Hot Dogs, and Boiled Mutton
“Evans has always been a music traditionalist and, although she no longer lives in Nashville, her sound continues to capture the down-homeyness of a woman seemingly devoted to the Southern way of life.”
Michael Bialas: A Winter Sugarland: Country's Merry (Christmas) Melodies
“Or little touches of homeyness, calico curtains and cookie-scented candles, left by the cobbler-baking phantom wife.”
“The chauffeur's quarters above the carriage house are spacious and warm; and the gardener's cottage, with a side entrance that lets visitors see directly into the kitchen, conveys homeyness like no other space on the property.”
“Prepare for the return of what anthropologist Grant McCracken calls "homeyness.”
“The problem is that, traditionally, Irish food is about humility, simplicity, homeyness.”
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