highernessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

higher +‎ -ness

名詞

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.