upness en · NOUN
Etymology
From up + -ness.
Meanings
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(qualifier:literal and figurative, uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being up
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: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:
- (qualifier:quantum mechanics, uncountable) The property of being an up quark.