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Meaning of upness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. The state, quality, or condition of being up
  2. The property of being an up quark.

Examples

“As well as encouraging externalization of mystery, male genitalization seems to encourage men to prize the qualities of hardness, upness, and linearity.”
“Sometimes ups, to smarten up, ask downs to come into a program created by ups to explain and justify their downness. The ups call this "human relations training." Of course, ups never have to explain their upness; that is why they are ups.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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