Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character of being rural.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being rural.
Examples
“Government financial planners use 'ruralness' for lack of a better yardstick to measure poverty in the country.”
“However due to the extreme ruralness of the La Laguna/Chinantla area I can still not find info for that specific area.”
still needing weather info in mountain base area of Chinantla
“Growing up in Winnipeg, traveling around Canada, the ruralness of my surroundings from little Omemee in north Ontario where I really started getting into music.”
The Wall Street Journal: Neil Young: It Was Only a Change of Plan
“Can someone tell me how a distric's 'ruralness' is measured?”
Hillary Campaign Emails Out "Electability" Power-Point To All House Dems
“That prices out those who seek cheap ruralness, and probably discourages those who seek traditional, (like God, family) even reactionary values (like xenophobia, patriarchalism, racism), because they won't find them there.”
“There was something, too, about this blending of fashionables and farmers, which made me think of the theater; for there is, in truth, a distinct note of histrionism about many of the rich Americans who "go in for" elaborate ruralness, and there is a touch of it very often, also, about "horsey" people.”
“Park-like it was, with a kind of cockney ruralness further endorsed by the waste papers and rifled tins of picnickers.”
“I don't know if it necessarily has to be the South, but I feel like the small-town ruralness of it is quite important to the story.”
“What we have achieved is about vision and a belief that anything is possible, not about ruralness.”
“It's just going to destroy that ruralness of Air Park," said Gail Hanson, who owns property on Bonanza.”
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