underneathness

== English == === Etymology === From underneath +‎ -ness. === Noun === underneathness (uncountable) The quality of being underneath. A space (literal or figurative) that is underneath. 1973, Edward Wellen, “Chalk Talk,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1973, p. 52, reprinted in The 21st Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 25 Stories by Edward Weller, Wildside Press, 2015,[2] But below the surface are the reelings and writhings that make the floor of a Freudian jungle a lively place. Dr. Chomsky calls this underneathness, this grimmer grammar, the ‘deep structure.’