upness

English

Etymology

up +‎ -ness

Noun

upness (uncountable)

  1. (literal and figurative) The state, quality, or condition of being up
    • 1988, James B. Nelson, The Intimate Connection: Male Sexuality, Masculine Spirituality:
      As well as encouraging externalization of mystery, male genitalization seems to encourage men to prize the qualities of hardness, upness, and linearity.
    • 1996, Benjamin Bowser, Raymond G. Hunt, Impacts of Racism on White Americans:
      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. (quantum mechanics) The property of being an up quark.

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