Belowness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being below. uncountable

    "Because this evangile does in fact give us a continuum of gods below and above joined by a vibrating cord, it supports my point that metaphors operate upon continua — in this case belowness and aboveness — moving people and things aptly about on the continua."

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"Because this evangile does in fact give us a continuum of gods below and above joined by a vibrating cord, it supports my point that metaphors operate upon continua — in this case belowness and aboveness — moving people and things aptly about on the continua."

Etymology

From below + -ness.

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