Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Publicness \Pub"lic*ness\, n.
   1. 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.

   2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as,
      the publicness of property. --Boyle.