English Explanatory Dictionary

netherness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state or quality of being nether or beneath; lowness; inferiority.
  2. Deepness; depth; abyss.

Word forms

netherness

Etymology

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”).

Related words

netherdom
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