subterraneanness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This subject has been investigated experimentally in order to obtain so far as possible a means of expressing mathematically the relative “subterraneanness” of various species of noctuid larvae."
- "And the Earth itself, that “feminine symbol” par excellence, with all her subterraneanness, her apparent immutability, would she be anything more than a pedestal which permits you to stand up straight?"
- "The play is The Lower Depths, and it’s being performed, aptly, in a basement. But apart from this subterraneanness, you may not recognize Maxim Gorky’s monument to romantic naturalism, draped as it is in buffoonery, chaos, and lurid colors."
- "The subterraneanness, both physical and mental, enfolds its value, as a geode its flash, and that is where this visitor at least is going to leave it."
- "A subterraneanness makes the earth shake, the surfaces."
- "Jazz clubs, and Ronnie’s in particular, are about nightness: the otherness, the subterraneanness, the Left Bankness, the all-the-things-your-parents-warned-you-against-ness."
Etymology
From subterranean + -ness.