Definition of "verticality" in Englisch

noun

1. Verticalness; the state or condition of being vertical.

   • 1847, Raphael Brandon and Joshua Arthur Brandon, An Analysis of Gothick Architecture, London: P. Richardson, Introduction, pp. 2-3, A tendency to direct verticality, placing itself in, perhaps, violent contrast with the Romanesque horizontalism of the Anglo-Norman, had been in the Early English Gothick, the special characteristick of that beautiful style.