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单词 higherness
释义

higherness

English

Etymology

higher + -ness

Noun

higherness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being higher.
    • 1929, Robert Mackintosh, Values, a Bird's Eye Survey (page 40)
      If this is sound, the pleasantness of pleasure can no longer be our guide; the higherness of the higher pleasure must have the decisive word — hedonism has committed suicide.
    • 1973, Pauline Kael, in The New Yorker
      And because in this article and others he didn't make his obeisances to the higherness of the traditional arts, he ran into the sort of disapproval that movies get.
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