Home › Words › R › ruralnessruralnessruralness means the quality of being rural.EtymologyFrom rural + -ness.nounThe quality of being rural.e.g.“‘Yii, that day, I stole looks at Jjali while cowering in my ruralness because the god who gave her everything had just served her my man and my marriage too.’” — 2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 146:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).