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upwardness
n. Quality of being upward.
Usage examples of "upwardness".
It was a wasteland that gave us no upwardness, and the upwardness was all I desired.
So in its way it was part of the upwardness, a necessity of the route.
Here and there lay villages, ringed around the brilliant upwardness of a palace-temple but separated from it and each other by miles of nothing.
A city that was a “single kilometer of upwardness triumphant amidst its parkland.