Home › Words › U › underclassnessunderclassnessunderclassness means the quality or condition of belonging to the underclass.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, underclassness ranks #29,754 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom underclass + -ness.nounThe quality or condition of belonging to the underclass.e.g.“Here, it may be that underclassness consists in the copresence of these several negative effects, with some unmeasured force 281.” — 1990, Brett V. Brown, The effect of neighborhood characteristics on teen outcomes related to socioeconomic attainment: in search of the underclass neighborhood, Volume 2:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).