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Definition of Lowness
1. Noun. A position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation.
Generic synonyms: Position, Status
Specialized synonyms: Inferiority, Lower Rank, Lower Status
Antonyms: High Status
Derivative terms: Low, Low
2. Noun. A feeling of low spirits. "He felt responsible for her lowness of spirits"
Generic synonyms: Sadness, Unhappiness
Derivative terms: Dispirited, Dispirited, Downhearted, Low-spirited, Low, Low
3. Noun. The quality of being low; lacking height. "He was suddenly aware of the lowness of the ceiling"
Specialized synonyms: Squatness, Stubbiness, Shortness, Truncation
Antonyms: Highness
Derivative terms: Low
4. Noun. A low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.). "He took advantage of the lowness of interest rates"
Definition of Lowness
1. n. The state or quality of being low.
Definition of Lowness
1. Noun. The property of being low. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lowness
1. the state of being low [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lowness
Literary usage of Lowness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"immediate occasion of this practice was the lowness of wages, which at that time
would not allow them to indulge in ale or spirits; and, wages rising, ..."
2. The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord by Francis Bacon (1824)
"... and lowness, and artificial dwarfing of trees. 532. IT is certain, that timber
trees in coppice woods grow more upright, and more free from under- ..."
3. Letters from America by John Robert Godley (1844)
"EFFECTS OF THEIR lowness. PENNSYLVANIAN DEBT. REPEAL ASSOCIATIONS. PICTURE-GALLERY.
Philadelphia, November. AFTER leaving Boston I travelled by " rail" to ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1840)
"each other in lowness of qualifications and lowness of fees, and gave the name
of Dutch auction to their proceedings : and a very good name it would be, ..."
5. A History of Ancient Sculpture by Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell, Wright Mitchell (1883)
"Effects of Hieroglyphic Writing on Art. — Reason for lowness of Relief. — Colors
used. — Rarity of Representations of Gods. — The God Thoth, Sinai. ..."
6. The Meteorological Magazine by Great Britain Meteorological Office (1919)
"REMARKABLE lowness OF STREAMS IN DEVON. ALTHOUGH we had anything but a fine summer
and have had no absolute or partial droughts, yet streams in this ..."
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