Crossword clues for lowness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lowness \Low"ness\, n. The state or quality of being low.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., from low (adj.) + -ness.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The property of being low. 2 (cx countable English) Something that is low or vulgar.
WordNet
n. the condition of being low; lacking height [ant: highness]
Wikipedia
Lowness may mean:
- The English word "lowness" (see Wiktionary entry to the right), a form of low
- The noun form of Low (complexity), a relationship between complexity classes in computational complexity theory
- Lowness (band), musical project out of Seattle, WA
Usage examples of "lowness".
The pictures of the Dedlocks past and gone have seemed to vanish into the damp walls in mere lowness of spirits, as the housekeeper has passed along the old rooms shutting up the shutters.
Does an hypochondriac affection, which causes sadness and lowness in all those who suffer from it, render you cheerful?
The effects of scurvy were manifested on every hand, and in all its various stages, from the muddy, pale complexion, pale gums, feeble, languid muscular motions, lowness of spirits, and fetid breath, to the dusky, dirty, leaden complexion, swollen features, spongy, purple, livid, fungoid, bleeding gums, loose teeth, oedematous limbs, covered with livid vibices, and petechiae spasmodically flexed, painful and hardened extremities, spontaneous hemorrhages from mucous canals, and large, illconditioned, spreading ulcers covered with a dark purplish fungus growth.
Nature makes some compensation for this lowness by an eccentricity of indentation which looks very picturesque on the map, and sometimes striking, as where Lynn stretches out a slender arm with knobby Nahant at the end, like a New Zealand war club.