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borderlineness

borderlineness noun: the quality of being borderline.

Noun

borderlineness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being borderline.
    • We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page 144

Origin of borderlineness

From borderline + -ness.

Questions about borderlineness

What does borderlineness mean?
Borderlineness means the quality of being borderline.
What part of speech is borderlineness?
Borderlineness is a noun.

Words near borderlineness in the dictionary

  1. borderline personality disordered
  2. borderline personality disorders
  3. borderline-personality disorder
  4. borderline-personality disorders
  5. borderlined
  6. borderlineness
  7. borderliner
  8. borderliners
  9. borderlines
  10. borderlining
  11. borderlinking

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