higherness

English

Etymology

higher +‎ -ness

Noun

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, 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.