officialness

English

Etymology

official +‎ -ness

Noun

officialness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being official.
    • 2009 August 13, “Critics' choice”, in Toronto Star‎:
      For Canadian artists in particular, though, labouring in the chilly isolation that is our institutional culture, rejection has a numbing air of officialness.
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