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  • noun The state or condition of being urban.

Etymologies

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urban +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • The flurry of street activity gives the film the essence of urbanness, which is an immersive, intoxicating verisimilitude to anyone who's tried to walk down Canal Street.

    Washington Square News RSS 2009

  • The flurry of street activity gives the film the essence of urbanness, which is an immersive, intoxicating verisimilitude to anyone who's tried to walk down Canal Street.

    Washington Square News RSS 2009

  • The flurry of street activity gives the film the essence of urbanness, which is an immersive, intoxicating verisimilitude to anyone who's tried to walk down Canal Street.

    Washington Square News RSS 2009

  • I think that's a reasonable proxy for the "urbanness" of a place - certainly, it's the best we can do with Census data.

    Caracas Chronicles 2008

  • Conceptually, the Helix Hotel participates in a critical dialogue between opulence and urbanness, between the variety of services offered by a small city and the demands of a five-star hotel guest.

    The Helix Hotel by Leeser Architecture 2009

  • For example, the fact that Fairbanks is one of the 13 out of 290 that show up in the Parker study is evidence that U, the urbanness of Fairbanks, has increased in the last few decades.

    More ISO-2000 Weather Stations from Jones and Hansen « Climate Audit 2007

  • It is showing that the data used by Peterson do indeed have distinct differences between rural and urban stations based on an alternate definition of urbanness.

    Trends in Peterson 2003 « Climate Audit 2007

  • There are times when Dazed's insistence that it's "different", that it's a magazine for "outsiders", can jar slightly - after all, it relies on sponsorship to survive, relies on commercial brands attaching themselves to the magazine and dirtying themselves a bit with its urbanness, its fearless nipple-baring.

    The Guardian World News Eva Wiseman 2011

  • Lefebvre defined the essence of urbanness, Shields writes, "as the simultaneity of many discrete social interactions brought together in a centrality," and "analyzed the impact of changing social relations and economic factors under capitalism upon the quality of access and participation in the urban milieu."

    Political Affairs Magazine 2009

  • Lefebvre defined the essence of urbanness, Shields writes, "as the simultaneity of many discrete social interactions brought together in a centrality," and "analyzed the impact of changing social relations and economic factors under capitalism upon the quality of access and participation in the urban milieu."

    Political Affairs Magazine 2009

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