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netherness

noun

Etymology

From Middle English nethernesse, from Old English niþernes (“deepness, the bottom, lowness, a low position”), from Proto-West Germanic *niþernassī, equivalent to nether + -ness. Cognate with Old High German nidarnassi, nidarnessi (“damnation”).

  1. inherited from *niþernassī✻
  2. inherited from niþernes — “deepness, the bottom, lowness, a low position”
  3. inherited from nethernesse

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being nether or beneath

    The state or quality of being nether or beneath; lowness; inferiority.

    • Riley's sardony preserves the duplicity, the netherness, the not-me of the narcissistic identification.

  2. Deepness

    Deepness; depth; abyss.

    • It was as if the vines and roots of those withered giants would imminently wrap themselves around the old fraternity and drag it into the dark netherness that secret old, places have always held.
    • The memory of the swirling netherness sent a chill down her spine. She shook her head. “But—” The waterfire had been both more and less than she had expected.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for netherness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA