secondarinessn.
/ˈsɛkəndərɪnɪs/ The quality of being secondary or subordinate.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [noun] > quality of being second rate or secondary
secondariness1687
second-rateness1865
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > lowness or subordination
wokenessc1000
lesserness1540
accessoriness1681
secondariness1687
1687 J. Norris Let. conc. Love & Music in Coll. Misc. 448 That then which is peculiar and discriminative must be taken from the Primaryness or Secondaryness of the Perception.
1878 R. W. Emerson Fortune of Republic in Wks. (1906) III. 397 The secondariness and aping of foreign and English life.
1883 Cent. Mag. 27 70 Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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