Lowness
['ləunis]
Definition
(noun.) a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.); 'he took advantage of the lowness of interest rates'.
(noun.) the quality of being low; lacking height; 'he was suddenly aware of the lowness of the ceiling'.
Checker: Luther--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being low.
Editor: Shelton
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See LOW]
Edited by Alta
Examples
- Hence it proceeds, that we associate, in a manner, the idea of whatever is good with that of height, and evil with lowness. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Lowness goes first. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I desire Eunice, and no lowness or meanness of Justinian and Andros will keep me back. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But this inferiority of quality is, perhaps, rather the effect of this lowness of price, than the cause of it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Muzzled I have been since that half a minute when I was betrayed into lowness, muzzled I am at the present time, muzzled I ever will be. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Do so; if your high heart, incapable of my infirmity of purpose, refuses to bend to the lowness of mine. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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