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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

belowness en · NOUN

Etymology

From below + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being below.
    • 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. 1986, James. W. Fernandez, Persuasions and Performances: The Play of Tropes in Culture, page 19:

Antonyms

aboveness