netherness
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netherness
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From Middle English nethernesse, from Old English niþernes (“deepness, the bottom, lowness, a low position”), from Proto-West Germanic *niþernassī, equivalent to nether + -ness. Cognate with Old High German nidarnassi, nidarnessi (“damnation”).
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- The state or quality of being nether or beneath; lowness; inferiority. Riley's sardony preserves the duplicity, the netherness, the not-me of the narcissistic identification.
- Deepness; depth; abyss. 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.
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title = {netherness},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
