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Netherness vs Nether - What's the difference?

netherness | nether | Derived terms |

Netherness is a derived term of nether.


As nouns the difference between netherness and nether

is that netherness is the state or quality of being nether or beneath; lowness; inferiority while nether is oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.

As a adjective nether is

lower; under.

As a adverb nether is

down; downward.

As a verb nether is

to bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.

netherness

English

Noun

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  • The state or quality of being nether or beneath; lowness; inferiority.
  • *2003 , Romana Huk, Assembling alternatives :
  • Riley's sardony preserves the duplicity, the netherness , the not-me of the narcissistic identification.
  • Deepness; depth; abyss.
  • *2007 , Eric Arvin, Slight Details & Random Events :
  • It was as if the vines and roots of those withered giants would imminently wrap themselves around the old fraternity and drag it into the dark netherness that secret old, places have always held.
  • *2007 , , The Sleeper Awakes :
  • The memory of the swirling netherness sent a chill down her spine. She shook her head. “But—” The waterfire had been both more and less than she had expected.

    nether

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) nether, nethere, nithere, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

  • Lower; under.
  • The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
  • Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
  • The nether regions.
  • * 1873 , Mark Twain, The Gilded Age , page187:
  • When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,
    Synonyms
    * (lower) bottom, lower * (sense, beneath the Earth's surface) subsurface, subterranean
    Derived terms
    * netherdom * nether region * Netherlands * nethermore * nethermost * netherness * netherty * netherward * netherworld

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Down; downward.
  • Low; low down.
  • Etymology 2

    Alteration of earlier nither, from (etyl) nitheren, from (etyl) . See above.

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
  • To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
  • To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
  • To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
  • To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
  • (mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
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