noun
Meaning 1
The property of being low.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
lowness
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rhymes with -əʊnəs
noun
Meaning 2
Something that is low or vulgar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
- lownesses of expression
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he took advantage of the lowness of interest rates
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: degree, grade, level
noun
Meaning 4
the quality of being low; lacking height
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he was suddenly aware of the lowness of the ceiling
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: highness
Broader terms: height, tallness
Narrower terms: squatness, stubbiness, shortness, truncation
noun
Meaning 5
a feeling of low spirits
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he felt responsible for her lowness of spirits
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: downheartedness, dejectedness, low-spiritedness, dispiritedness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sadness, unhappiness
noun
Meaning 6
a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: low status, lowliness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: status, position
Narrower terms: inferiority, lower status, lower rank
History
Etymology
From Middle English lownesse; equivalent to low + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: vutësi — property
- Dutch: laagte — property
- Esperanto: malalteco — property
- Finnish: mataluus — property
- Finnish: alhaisuus — property
- Ingrian: matalus — property
- Ottoman Turkish: رذالت (rezâlet) — property
- Ukrainian: ни́зькість (nýzʹkistʹ) — property
- Finnish: rahvaanomaisuus — something vulgar
- Finnish: säädyttömyys — something vulgar
- Ukrainian: ни́зькість (nýzʹkistʹ) — something vulgar