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Meaning of "upside-downness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UPSIDE-DOWNNESS

upside-downness  [ˌʌpsaɪdˈdaʊnnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UPSIDE-DOWNNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Upside-Downness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UPSIDE-DOWNNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of upside-downness in the English dictionary

The definition of upside-downness in the dictionary is the condition of being turned over completely; inverted state. Other definition of upside-downness is the condition of being confused, muddled or topsy-turvy.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UPSIDE-DOWNNESS


aloneness
əˈləʊnnəs
betweenness
bɪˈtwiːnnəs
brazenness
ˈbreɪzənnəs
brokenness
ˈbrəʊkənnəs
brownness
ˈbraʊnnəs
clandestineness
klænˈdɛstɪnnəs
doneness
ˈdʌnnəs
feminineness
ˈfɛmɪnɪnnəs
foreignness
ˈfɒrɪnnəs
hiddenness
ˈhɪdənnəs
humanness
ˈhjuːmənnəs
inaneness
ɪˈneɪnnəs
ingrownness
ɪnˈɡrəʊnnəs
loneness
ˈləʊnnəs
oftenness
ˈɒftənnəs
saneness
ˈseɪnnəs
sanguineness
ˈsæŋɡwɪnnəs
soddenness
ˈsɒdənnəs
uncleanness
ʌnˈkliːnnəs
unknownness
ʌnˈnəʊnnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UPSIDE-DOWNNESS

upsetter
upsetting
upsettingly
upshift
upshoot
upshot
upside
upside down
upside-down
upside-down cake
upsideowne
upsides
upsilon
upsitting
upsize
upsizing
upskill
upskirt
upslope
upsoar

WORDS THAT END LIKE UPSIDE-DOWNNESS

business
cleanness
commonness
drunkenness
evenness
greenness
Guinness
keenness
leanness
McGuinness
meanness
openness
outspokenness
plainness
rottenness
sternness
stubbornness
suddenness
thinness
unevenness
wantonness

Synonyms and antonyms of upside-downness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «upside-downness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UPSIDE-DOWNNESS

Find out the translation of upside-downness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of upside-downness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «upside-downness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

颠倒downness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

invertida downness
570 millions of speakers

English

upside-downness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऊपर से downness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رأسا على downness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вверх - downness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de cabeça para downness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গোলমালে-downness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tête sens dessus-dessous
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Terbalik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kopf - downness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

逆さまdownness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

거꾸로 downness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Upside-downness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngược downness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தலைகீழாக-downness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उलथापालथ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

baş downness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

upside - downness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

upside - downness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вгору- downness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cu susul în downness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

upside - downness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onderstebo downness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

upp-och- downness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

opp- downness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of upside-downness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UPSIDE-DOWNNESS»

The term «upside-downness» is used very little and occupies the 192.493 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UPSIDE-DOWNNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about upside-downness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UPSIDE-DOWNNESS»

Discover the use of upside-downness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to upside-downness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Beyond The Occult: Twenty Years' Research Into the Paranormal
More importantly we can see the way that the mechanisms of the robot produce ' upsidedownness' and that it is our unconscious conviction of the truth of 'upside- downness' — the feeling that life is not worth too much effort — that really ...
Colin Wilson Author, 2013
2
Home-work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature
Shani Mootoo's "The Upside-Downness of the World as It Unfolds" deconstructs, from a lesbian perspective, a hetero-normative ethos that pervades religious, political, and cultural credos, alongside a Western feminist discourse, which falls  ...
Cynthia Conchita Sugars, 2004
3
The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World
Baselitz has sought to block the inevitable effort to vest upside- downness with symbolic meaning, by saying that he paints upside down in order to underscore the autonomy of painting, so that, to invert a famous theorem of Spinoza, the order ...
Arthur Coleman Danto, 2001
4
Coolposing: Secrets of Black Male Leadership In America
Image control, or the ability to project the needed or desired look, which is what coolness really is, shows phony feelings to others through inversion or “upside- downness”, which reverses the position, order, form and relationship of real ...
George Cross, 2010
5
Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine
When asked, “Do you believe in grace?” who could say no? Max Lucado asks a deeper question: Have you been changed by grace? Shaped by grace? Strengthened by grace? Emboldened by grace? Softened by grace?
Max Lucado, 2012
6
The Heart of Islamic Philosophy : The Quest for ...
Third, they are in the bond of their soul's upside- downness, for they are hanging and suspended in the body, veiled from seeing the secret and the work of that world. Three other bonds give witness to these three bonds. One is the tongue's ...
Stony Brook William C. Chittick Professor of Comparative Studies State University of New York, 2001
7
Kierkegaard's Writings, XVI: Works of Love
To communicate decision in knowledge or knowledge in decision is an upside- downness, as it certainly has become in these times—indeed, it is and remains upside-downness, but in these times it has become the genuinely profound, the ...
Søren Kierkegaard, 2013
8
The Cambridge Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare criticism
(4.5.i6i-6) The 'upside-downness' is emphasized and made more explicit verbally in Folio - extended from Quarto but not amended. 'None does offend' suggests that no one has the right to accuse or judge since all are sinners, or that not one ...
Catherine M. S. Alexander, 2003
9
Breathe, Stretch, Write: Learning to Write with Everything ...
Learning to Write with Everything You've Got Sheree Fitch. here is a poem about upside-downness. uPside doWN Using all five senses, write for five minutes beginning with “I woke up in the middle of the night, and everything seemed upside ...
Sheree Fitch, 2011
10
Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty
(Massumi 2002a, 97-98) Sensation's excessiveness is what Fai experiences in these lonely moments of upside-downness. These are moments when he perhaps realizes that Hong Kong will continue to be upside down, depending on the ...
Erin Manning, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UPSIDE-DOWNNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term upside-downness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Battlestar Galactica: Miniseries, Part 2
As the miniseries draws to a close—and it did so without promising a season of television to follow, let alone four—it's the upside-downness of the world as our ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Aug 14»
2
Leading with Love
There's a great deal of upside-downness​ in the world today. Wrongs aren't going to be righted and words like life and freedom, men and women, marriage and ... «National Review Online, Feb 14»
3
Future does not look bright for PCB and SLC
As a brief aside, think of the upside-downness of cricket right now that SLC and the PCB can genuinely claim some moral high ground. But by abstaining instead ... «The National, Feb 14»
4
Star Trek the Animated Series, Seaon 1, Episode 14–The Eye of the …
The camera pulls back to reveal that yes, the upside-downness of Kirk, Spock and McCoy was a reflection in a pool of water since they're now in what appears to ... «Trek Mate, Feb 14»
5
Flickr's Upside-Down "About" Page Was Actually A Clever Job Ad
As it turns out, yes, Flickr's upside-downness was on purpose. Yahoo confirmed to us today that the “mistake” was actually an easter egg meant to celebrate ... «TechCrunch, Jan 14»
6
Brian Wilson earns victory for the Dodgers in his first game against …
The upside-downness of this was so confounding that the online box score still had Wilson in Giants gear beating the Giants. He wasn't bubbly about it. Or sad. «Yahoo! Sports, Sep 13»
7
Angels arrive; Dodgers need directions
Is it a temporary condition, with all the upside-downness of things in Southern California destined to return to their natural order just as soon as Dodgers owner ... «ESPN, Dec 11»
8
Midway Dispatch: Fair's Super Loops takes riders for a spin
It was like sitting in an open-air easy chair, with the downside being its pending upside-downness. When Super Loops started up, it was easy to see why there ... «The Missoulian, Aug 10»
9
Nigeria: For the Love of Baobab Fruit
She saw beauty in its ugliness, in its "upside-downness." Zainab A. Abubakar, a botanist with the Biological Sciences Department of Gombe State University in ... «AllAfrica.com, Nov 09»
10
From Russia, With Self-Loathing
... two and 101 pounds, and giggles frequently—coupled with an upbeat sound track, featuring the Soviet band Kino, compound this sense of upside-downness. «Atlantic Online, May 09»

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