Publicness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Publicness \Pub"lic*ness\, n.
     1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view
        or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as,
        the publicness of a sale.
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     2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as,
        the publicness of property. --Boyle.
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