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- noun The condition of being a
home ;homeliness ,domesticity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A woman in the hut made all the difference; a feeling of "homeness" now pervaded the camp.
There was a King in Egypt Norma Lorimer 1906
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a sense of at-homeness which is good for our souls; they define, beyond peradventure of doubt, what is ours and what is another's.
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And while the reality of having a room full of people waiting to speak to oneself ought to have been a good feeling, oozing with validation and "you've-finally-come-homeness," instead performance anxiety set in.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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And while the reality of having a room full of people waiting to speak to oneself ought to have been a good feeling, oozing with validation and "you've-finally-come-homeness," instead performance anxiety set in.
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My at-homeness in the United States did not come despite ethnic and religious differences such as these but because of them.
Arnold M. Eisen: A Jew At Christmas Arnold M. Eisen 2010
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And while the reality of having a room full of people waiting to speak to oneself ought to have been a good feeling, oozing with validation and "you've-finally-come-homeness," instead performance anxiety set in.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Though not a particularly observant Jew, Comden seemed informed by a Jewish frame of mind — a wise-cracking, down-to-earth, cultural "at homeness" with which I very much identified.
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My at-homeness in the United States did not come despite ethnic and religious differences such as these but because of them.
Arnold M. Eisen: A Jew At Christmas Arnold M. Eisen 2010
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She writes of the not quite at-homeness of the English Jews in England and refers to their allegiances to other people and places — to Holocaust survivors and victims, to Israel and Russia, and to family, ceremony, and traditions.
Elaine Feinstein. 2009
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Xuei-Hen Ju uses his blog to promote his own kind of ‘homeness.’
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