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upness

upness noun: the state, quality, or condition of being up.

Noun

upness (uncountable)

  1. (literal and figurative) The state, quality, or condition of being up
    • As well as encouraging externalization of mystery, male genitalization seems to encourage men to prize the qualities of hardness, upness, and linearity.1988, James B. Nelson, The Intimate Connection: Male Sexuality, Masculine Spirituality
    • Sometimes ups, to smarten up, ask downs to come into a program created by ups to explain and justify their downness. The ups call this "human relations training." Of course, ups never have to explain their upness; that is why they are ups.1996, Benjamin Bowser, Raymond G. Hunt, Impacts of Racism on White Americans
  2. (quantum mechanics) The property of being an up quark.

Origin of upness

From up + -ness.

Questions about upness

What does upness mean?
Upness means the state, quality, or condition of being up.
What part of speech is upness?
Upness is a noun.

Words near upness in the dictionary

  1. upmove
  2. upmoved
  3. upmoves
  4. upmoving
  5. UPN
  6. upness
  7. Upney
  8. Upnor
  9. upo
  10. upo'
  11. upogebiid

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