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upscaleness en · NOUN

Etymology

From upscale + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being upscale.
    • At the upfronts I always learned something too about what the American people want: heartwarming dramas, women’s stuff, sports, heroism, complex characters, real people, guilty pleasures, eye candy, names they can trust, ambiguous villains, simple comedies, hipster hipness, good old-fashioned values, edginess, upscaleness, satire, science fiction, girls, boys, Latinas, crime procedurals, urban sitcoms, aspirationalism, a way to express their anger. 2008 May 4, Virginia Heffernan, “VoilSort Of)!”, in New York Times: