officialness

noun

officialness

noun

Etymology From official + -ness.

1

The quality of being official.

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

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