underneathness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "While seeing at last beneath the surface of things, he sees that underneathness is not so much a system as a unity. He does glimpse the system: what he sees is the trace of a process, and that process is a system at work."
- "A house’s underneathness is crushing—weight of sleep pressing from the flats above, little lumps of coal releasing miniature avalanches which rattle down the black pile, furnace grimly dead, asbestos-covered arms prying into every corner."
- "1973, Edward Wellen, “Chalk Talk,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1973, p. 52, reprinted in The 21st Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 25 Stories by Edward Weller, Wildside Press, 2015, But below the surface are the reelings and writhings that make the floor of a Freudian jungle a lively place. Dr. Chomsky calls this underneathness, this grimmer grammar, the ‘deep structure.’"
Etymology
From underneath + -ness.