verticality

Noun

verticality (countable and uncountable, plural verticalities)

1. Verticalness; the state or condition of being vertical.
   • For these complicated reasons, although, when the sun is vertical, and darts a perpendicular ray, it is supposed to strike with greatest force; yet, in those countries where it is vertical twice a year, in passing to and from the Tropic of Cancer, the greatest heat is not during the instant of its...1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica, London: T. Lowndes, Volume III, Book III, Chapter VII, Section X, p. 655
   • A tendency to direct verticality, placing itself in, perhaps, violent contrast with the Romanesque horizontalism of the Anglo-Norman, had been in the Early English Gothick, the special characteristick of that beautiful style.1847, Raphael Brandon and Joshua Arthur Brandon, An Analysis of Gothick Architecture, London: P. Richardson, Introduction, pp. 2-3

   Synonyms:

   uprightness, verticalness