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Is there a noun to describe the status of something being "indoor" or "outdoor"?

English Language & Usage Asked by Molochdaa on August 26, 2021

I’m not a native English speaker, and I’m searching for a noun (that may not exist?) that would help me describe if something is happening "indoors" or "outdoors".

For example, instead of asking, "Is this activity indoor or outdoor?" I would like to ask, "What is the xxx of this activity?"

Indoorness, outdoorness, etc., don’t seem to exist. Does anyone have an idea?

2 Answers

The best preposition that you could use in this scenario is location. For example, you could say "What is the location of this activity?", or to better put it for conversational language, "Where is this activity going to be located?". If it is understood that you know the literal location of it, then English speakers will probably understand that you mean indoors versus outdoors.

Answered by amogh7joshi on August 26, 2021

I’m not aware of a noun for this. In practice, I would guess and ask if I’m correct: “Will this dinner be indoors?” Since there are only two options, this works well enough. Words get created to fill a need, and this need isn’t common enough to bother.

Answered by StephenS on August 26, 2021

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