upness
nounEtymology From up + -ness.
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The state, quality, or condition of being up
Literal and figurative
- 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:
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The property of being an up quark.
Quantum mechanics
- Related terms
- fed-upness, grown-upness, made-upness, messed-upness