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Upscale vs Upscaleness - What's the difference?

upscale | upscaleness |

As an adjective upscale

is (us) marked by wealth or quality; high-class.

As a verb upscale

is to increase in size, to scale up.

As a noun upscaleness is

the quality of being upscale.

upscale

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (US) Marked by wealth or quality; high-class.
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
    • In Rio de Janeiro, thousands protested in a gritty area far from the city’s upscale seaside districts. In other cities, demonstrators blocked roads, barged into City Council meetings or interrupted sessions of local lawmakers, clapping loudly and sometimes taking over the microphone.
  • *2002 "This strategy [of rotating the garage with respect to the street] has become popular in many upscale housing developments nationwide primarily becaues it de-emphasizes the garage and makes the house look more like their traditional counterparts from the turn of the last century." — Sarah Susanka, Not So Big Solutions for Your Home

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To increase in size, to scale up.

    • Anagrams

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    upscaleness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being upscale.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 4, author=Virginia Heffernan, title=VoilSort Of)!, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=At the upfronts I always learned something too about what the American people want: heartwarming dramas, women’s stuff, sports, heroism, complex characters, real people, guilty pleasures, eye candy, names they can trust, ambiguous villains, simple comedies, hipster hipness, good old-fashioned values, edginess, upscaleness , satire, science fiction, girls, boys, Latinas, crime procedurals, urban sitcoms, aspirationalism, a way to express their anger. }}