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upness

noun

Etymology

From up + -ness.

  1. inherited from *upp✻
  2. inherited from *upp✻
  3. inherited from upp
  4. inherited from up
  5. suffixed as upness — “up + ness”

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • 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.

  2. The property of being an up quark.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for upness. 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