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.

See also

• fed-upness
• grown-upness
• made-upness
• messed-upness