ERECTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does erectness mean? 

• ERECTNESS (noun)
  The noun ERECTNESS has 2 senses:

1. the property of being upright in posture

2. position at right angles to the horizon

  Familiarity information: ERECTNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERECTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being upright in posture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

erectness; uprightness

Hypernyms ("erectness" is a kind of...):

stance (standing posture)

Derivation:

erect (upright in position or posture)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Position at right angles to the horizon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

erectness; uprightness; verticality; verticalness

Hypernyms ("erectness" is a kind of...):

position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)

Derivation:

erect (upright in position or posture)

 Context examples 

She had Roman features and a double chin, disappearing into a throat like a pillar: these features appeared to me not only inflated and darkened, but even furrowed with pride; and the chin was sustained by the same principle, in a position of almost preternatural erectness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)