downness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The property of being a down quark. uncountable
    — Each of the flavors has a corresponding property, so that the down quark carries "downness," although upness and downness are rarely mentioned,
  2. The quality or state of being physically down. uncountable
    — To some degree this feature determines the profiles themselves: upness in B and downness in A, but the downness of C, more than a downness of relaxation, is a downness of being held down.
  3. Lowness of pitch or tone. uncountable
    — If children are taught to listen to certain definite sounds (whisles, birds, singing, etc.) they will soon observe something as to the "upness" and "downness" of tones;
  4. The quality or state of being low in a social hierarchy; lowliness. uncountable
    — The downs spend a lot of time taking the ups out to lunch and dinner to explain their downness.
  5. The state of having a low or disparaging mood; a feeling of depression, helplessness, or dislike. uncountable
    — […] the transition from the emotion of grief to the emotion of depression seems to be made by way of a mood that we might call depression —a generalized downness in one's view of things that then attaches itself, more or less non-rationally, to "objects" like the new president and my deficit of talent.

词汇关系

相关词
up-and-downness

词源

From down + -ness.
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