Meaning of enclosedness | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or characteristic of being confined within actual or figurative boundaries.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“I was thinking about the moment when that enclosedness, which can be protective, tips over into something menacing and unpleasant.”

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