Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The state or characteristic of being confined within actual or figurative boundaries..
I was thinking about the moment when that enclosedness, which can be protective, tips over into something menacing and unpleasant.
Maggie was always single, always withheld. . . . It was during this winter that Ursula suffered and enjoyed most keenly Maggie's fundamental sadness of enclosedness.
We must ask, first, whether our privacy — call it our distance or enclosedness or unknowability with respect to others — is elected or inevitable.
Use enclosedness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Enclosedness means The state or characteristic of being confined within actual or figurative boundaries..
Common synonyms include boundedness, finity, finitude, finiteness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I was thinking about the moment when that enclosedness, which can be protective, tips over into something menacing and unpleasant.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.