belowness

English

Etymology

From below +‎ -ness.

Noun

belowness (uncountable)

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

     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.

Antonyms

• aboveness