Upness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Upness is a noun meaning (literal and figurative) The state, quality, or condition of being up.
Meaning
(literal and figurative) The state, quality, or condition of being up.
More Meanings
- (quantum mechanics) The property of being an up quark.
Example Sentences
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include uppitiness, uppityness, uppishness, upstandingness, upwardness, upliftedness.
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