higherness
English
Etymology
higher + -ness
Noun
higherness (uncountable)
- 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.
- 1929, Robert Mackintosh, Values, a Bird's Eye Survey (page 40)