colloq. [f. TOWNY a. + -NESS.] Towny quality or condition.
1881. Miss Braddon, Asph., II. 153. Mrs. Turchill was so delighted with Torquay in its increased towniness and shoppiness.
1901. F. W. Lawrence, Heart of Empire, ii. 73. There are thus two ideas of towniness: one represented by the number of persons to the acre, and the other by the distance in time and space of the centre from the outer limits of the suburbs.
