Noun
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.
The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is not the same-sex sexual practices that are being repressed by the Egyptian police but rather the sociopolitical identification of these practices with the Western identity of gayness and the publicness that these gay-identified men seek. Joseph Massad
[I]t is the publicness of socio-sexual identities rather than the sexual acts themselves that elicits repression. Joseph Massad
I’ve learned a great deal about publicness since my life became an open blog and I’m learning more as I do my research — some fascinating stuff, which I’ll share with you here as I go. Source: Internet
Public Parts — BuzzMachineThat’s the title of my next book about the end of privacy and the benefits of publicness. Source: Internet