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Rurality

noun
(pl. ruralities)
1.
A rural characteristic or trait.  Synonym: ruralism.






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"Rurality" Quotes from Famous Books



... uninteresting; made up of crescents and terraces, and rows of houses that have no individuality, and second-rate shops,—in short, the outskirts of the vast city, when it begins to have a kind of village character but no rurality or sylvan aspect, as at Blackheath. My journey, when at last we started, was quite unmarked by incident, and extremely tedious; it being a slow train, which plods on without haste and without rest. At about ten o'clock we reached Birkenhead, and there crossed the familiar ...
— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... we are going to take tea under the trees there—my daughter's suggestion—she is so fond of rurality. Will you give us the pleasure of your company? You and"—here, I must confess, the second invitation came in reply to a glance of ...
— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik



Words linked to "Rurality" :   trait, rural, characteristic



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