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downness rare. (ˈdaʊnnɪs) [f. down a. + -ness.] The fact or condition of being down; lowness.1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xx. 150 Rightness and leftness, upness and downness, are again pure sensations differing specifically from each other, and generically from everything else. 1927 Scots Obser...
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upness
ˈupness [up adv.2] The quality of being elevated or raised.1887 W. James in Mind No. 45. 14 Rightness and leftness, upness and downness, are..pure sensation. 1902 Yorks. Post 28 Feb., With the..idea of height or up-ness in our minds.
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Gödel's incompleteness theorems
"There is thus a curious upside-downness to our normal human way of perceiving the world: we are built to perceive “big stuff” rather than “small stuff
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run-down
run-down, ppl. a. [run v.] 1. Downtrodden, oppressed. rare—1.1683 O. Heywood Diaries (1883) III. 340 That lost oppertunity of clearing..the run-down truth. 2. Of watch-plates: Faced with only one coat of enamel.1834–6 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 490 The coarser description of watch plates are made ...
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rightness
rightness (ˈraɪtnɪs) Forms: 1 rehtnisse, 1–2 -nise (2 -nis), 1–3 rihtnesse (3 rist-), 4 ryȝ-, riȝtnesse, -nisse, 6–7 rightnes, -nesse (6 righte-), 7– rightness. [OE. rehtnisse, rihtnesse, etc., = MDu. rechtenesse, OHG. rehtnissa: see right a. and -ness.] 1. a. Uprightness, integrity, moral rectitude...
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left
▪ I. left, a., adv., and n. (lɛft) Forms: 2–4 luft, 3 leoft, 3–5 lift(e, 4–5 lyft(e, 4–6 lefte, 4– left. [ME. left, lift:—OE. left (Kentish), lyft, occurring only in the gloss ‘inanis, left’ (Mone Q. & F. I. 443), and in the comb. lyft-ádl paralysis; the primary sense ‘weak, worthless’ is represente...
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one
▪ I. one, numeral a., pron., etc. (wʌn) Forms: see below. [Com. Teut.: OE. án = OFris. ân, ên, OS. ên (MDu., Du. een), OHG. (MHG., Ger.) ein, ON. einn:—ein-r (Da. een, Sw. en), Goth. ain-s:—OTeut. *ain-oz:—pre-Teut. *oinos = L. ūnus (OL. oinos); OIr. óen, OSlav. inŭ, Lith. vënas one; cf. Gr. οἶνος, ...
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