up-and-downness

But they don't tell you that it is staggering, tremendous; that it is not merely an experience but a re-birth; that it gives you for the first time in your life the freedom of a new dimension (for although we know that there are three of them, we are forced to move mainly in two: so that our sense of up-and-downness is necessarily dim and undeveloped compared with our acute perception of the to-and-fro).

Mrs. Miniver 1939

There's the same prim, official straight up-and-downness about the brick front.

In the Bishop's Carriage Miriam Michelson 1906

There's the same prim, official straight up-and-downness about the brick front.

In The Bishop's Carriage. 1903

Beswick's awkwardness and his abrupt up-and-downness of manner contrasted strangely with Dr. Gunstone's simple but graceful ways.

The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869