lowness

3 definitions found

lowness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lowness \Low"ness\, n.
     The state or quality of being low.
     [1913 Webster]

lowness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lowness
      n 1: a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or
           fortune or estimation [syn: low status, lowness,
           lowliness] [ant: high status]
      2: a feeling of low spirits; "he felt responsible for her
         lowness of spirits" [syn: downheartedness, dejectedness,
         low-spiritedness, lowness, dispiritedness]
      3: the quality of being low; lacking height; "he was suddenly
         aware of the lowness of the ceiling" [ant: highness,
         loftiness]
      4: a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or
         temperature etc.); "he took advantage of the lowness of
         interest rates"

lowness - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "lowness":
     Schmerz, Slough of Despond, abjectness, abominableness,
     atrociousness, baseness, bassness, beggarliness, blank despondency,
     brevity, briefness, commonness, commonplaceness, compactness,
     compendiousness, conciseness, contemptibility, contemptibleness,
     crumminess, curtness, death wish, debasement, decrescendo,
     deepness, degradation, dejectedness, dejection, depravity,
     depression, despair, despicableness, despondency, despondentness,
     dimness, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, down trip,
     downcastness, downer, downheartedness, drooping spirits, enormity,
     execrableness, faintness, feebleness, flatness, foulness, fullness,
     fulsomeness, gentleness, grossness, heartlessness, heinousness,
     hollowness, homeliness, hopelessness, ignobility, indistinctness,
     instantaneousness, littleness, low spirits, lowness of spirit,
     malaise, meanness, mellowness, miserableness, monstrousness,
     nefariousness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, oppression, ordinariness,
     paltriness, pessimism, pettiness, plangency, plebeianism, pokiness,
     poorness, rankness, resonance, richness, scabbiness, scrubbiness,
     scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, self-destructive urge,
     shabbiness, shoddiness, short time, shortness, sinking heart,
     smallness, softness, sonority, sonorousness, spiritlessness,
     squalor, subaudibility, subduedness, succinctness,
     suicidal despair, summariness, taedium vitae, transience,
     unclearness, vibrancy, vileness, weakness, weariness of life,
     wretchedness