Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being rural.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being rural.

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  • noun The quality of being rural.

Etymologies

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rural +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Government financial planners use 'ruralness' for lack of a better yardstick to measure poverty in the country.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • 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 2009

  • 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 2009

  • 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.

    Neil Young: It Was Only a Change of Plan John Jurgensen 2011

  • 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.

    Neil Young: It Was Only a Change of Plan John Jurgensen 2011

  • 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 2009

  • Can someone tell me how a distric's 'ruralness' is measured?

    Hillary Campaign Emails Out "Electability" Power-Point To All House Dems 2009

  • 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.

    Rural Mexico 2005

  • 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.

    Rural Mexico 2005

  • 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.

    Rural Mexico 2005

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