A place with the rurality of a turnip field. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But if you want a suggestion, either state the truth about comparative "rurality" or excise the statement altogether. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Life expectancy at birth, according to the research, "improved with increasing 'rurality' and those born in village and dispersed areas could expect to live longer than those in town and fringe areas. From Wordnik.com. [Country dwellers live longer, report on 'rural idyll' shows] Reference
And thanks for passing rurality on to us to check out. From Wordnik.com. [Our First Award « Fairegarden] Reference
rurality said this on February 8, 2008 at 10:04 am | Reply rurality…Thanks and welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Just Another Spring Like Day « Fairegarden] Reference
Some Japanese Watteau must have mapped out this Donko-Tchaya, for it has rather an affected air of rurality, though very pretty. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Sherry at the Zoo said this on March 17, 2008 at 5:50 am | Reply rurality, thanks, you can say whatever you want, within reason of course. From Wordnik.com. [Blooms of March GBBD 2008 « Fairegarden] Reference
There is none of that aspect of desolation and pity-my-sorrows so common at the faded resorts of the unhappy South, yet a pleasant rurality is impressed on the entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
With the study showing a strong link between Welsh language ability and rurality, this trend could lead to a ‘brain drain’ from areas of Wales that can least afford to lose their young people to the more prosperous, but less Welsh speaking urban areas. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
The data from SFP confirms all of these except for the rurality constraint. From Wordnik.com. [Language Log] Reference
The Wicker Man and so many other movies have taught me to be wary of rurality. From Wordnik.com. [Culture kills... wait, I mean cutlery] Reference
Veitch, Craig, "The impact of rurality on environmental determinants and hazards". From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City infoZine Headlines] Reference
Yates made a mental note that there was not as much rurality about this girl as he had thought at first. From Wordnik.com. [In the Midst of Alarms] Reference
Lucy offered to invite other neighbors; Mrs. Bazalgette replied she didn't want to be bothered with rurality. From Wordnik.com. [Love Me Little, Love Me Long] Reference
Epithets which partizans have bandied of rurality and rural chamber must not become the cause of injustice. From Wordnik.com. [Education for the Peasantry in France] Reference
Mr. Halifax, we are going to take tea under the trees there – my daughter's suggestion – she is so fond of rurality. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
He oscillated between the dinginess and dulness of the capital as he knew it, and the well-accustomed rurality of his home. From Wordnik.com. [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference
Amy Brock Martin, lead author and deputy director for the research center, said they mined data by race and levels of rurality. From Wordnik.com. [Stories: Local News] Reference
To the passing observer the rurality of the Bocking side is indistinguishable from the urbanity of the Braintree side; it is just a little muddier. From Wordnik.com. [What is Coming?] Reference
Gregory, Gordon, "The impact of rurality on health practices and services - Summary Paper to the Inaugural rural and remote health scientific symposium". From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City infoZine Headlines] Reference
The dilemma was resolved by what one might call a second-stage imagined community: the rurality once marginalized by manufacturing returned as a confected 'soul' or source. From Wordnik.com. [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference
O ancient Gardener, take heart - the suppressed rurality of their cities guarantees the eternal return of the egalitarian moment and the banishment of the rude settlers from your midst. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
I immediately hastened, and had the pleasure of seeing my complexion catch the colour of the curtains that overhung the glass on each side, and exhibit the pleasing rurality of a pale green. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
He was not handsome, certainly, but he looked peculiarly amiable and if his overt wonderment savoured a trifle of rurality, it was an agreeable contrast to the hard, inexpressive masks about him. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Pickering] Reference
Our readers will have the kindness to suppose our hero, Mr. Sponge, shot out of an omnibus at the sign of the Cat and Compasses, in the full rurality of grass country, sprinkled with fallows and turnip-fields. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference
It was finally settled that as a fine day was highly doubtful, it should be a natural dinner in the dining-room, and that whatever rurality might seem advisable, should be improvised when the time actually came. From Wordnik.com. [Zoe: The History of Two Lives] Reference
I remember no remarkable object on the road, -- here and there an old inn, a gentleman's seat of moderate pretension, a great deal of tall and continued hedge, a quiet English greenness and rurality, till, drawing near. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
Even the most modest of them had pretty gardens in front and behind, and verandas and balconies with flowering creepers and shrubberies, and a general air of semi-rurality that cheated my poor mother with a make-believe effect of being, if not in the country, at any rate out of town. From Wordnik.com. [Records of a Girlhood] Reference
The air of a delightfully civilized rurality was upon him, an air of landowning, law-dispensing, sporting efficiency; and if, in the fitness of his coloring, he made one think of a fox or a pheasant, in character he suggested nothing so much as one of the deep-rooted oaks of his own park. From Wordnik.com. [A Fountain Sealed] Reference
America’s vastness and rurality, on the other hand, is a huge cerebral reservoir responsible for great changes and unique new expressions unequalled globally. From Wordnik.com. [Visual Futurist – The Genius of Syd Mead] Reference
Anyway – it’s clear that Izhevsk is one of those places that go from urban to rural very abruptly, and the meteo station is miles beyond that abruptness in the middle of lots of rurality. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo: Adjusting in Russia « Climate Audit] Reference
I just took rurality as my ground. From Wordnik.com. [In Rough Country] Reference
They were separated by the rurality of the South. From Wordnik.com. [Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War] Reference
"Mr. Halifax, we are going to take tea under the trees there -- my daughter's suggestion -- she is so fond of rurality. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
There is no freshness or rurality in it. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852] Reference
The rurality of Lippinghall is nothing thereto.”. From Wordnik.com. [Maid in Waiting] Reference
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