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netherness

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Noun — The quality of being lower or beneath something else; inferiority.

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Etymology

This word developed from Middle English nethernesse, from Old English niþernes ("deepness, the bottom, lowness, a low position"), from Proto-West Germanic *niþernassī, equivalent to nether + -ness. It is cognate with Old High German nidarnassi, nidarnessi ("damnation").

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