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ERECTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does erectness mean? 

ERECTNESS (noun)
  The noun ERECTNESS has 2 senses:

1. the property of being upright in postureplay

2. position at right angles to the horizonplay

  Familiarity information: ERECTNESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ERECTNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being upright in posture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

erectness; uprightness

Hypernyms ("erectness" is a kind of...):

stance (standing posture)

Derivation:

erect (upright in position or posture)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Position at right angles to the horizon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

erectness; uprightness; verticality; verticalness

Hypernyms ("erectness" is a kind of...):

position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)

Derivation:

erect (upright in position or posture)


 Context examples 


She had Roman features and a double chin, disappearing into a throat like a pillar: these features appeared to me not only inflated and darkened, but even furrowed with pride; and the chin was sustained by the same principle, in a position of almost preternatural erectness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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