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middleness

middleness noun: the quality of being middle, or in the middle.

Noun

middleness (usually uncountable, plural middlenesses)

  1. (usually) The quality of being middle, or in the middle.
    • The poem is heavily concerned with a middleness, and with an attempt to understand this middleness in relation to beginnings.1997, Marion Montgomery, Romantic Confusions of the Good: Beauty as Truth, Truth Beauty, page 74
    • Even during the era of Middle Western ascendancy early in the century, the qualities that distinguished the Middle West were associated with middleness.2001, Andrew R. L. Cayton, Susan E. Gray, The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History, page 186

Forms of middleness

pluralmiddlenesses

Origin of middleness

From middle + -ness.

Questions about middleness

What does middleness mean?
Middleness means the quality of being middle, or in the middle.
What part of speech is middleness?
Middleness is a noun.
What is the plural of middleness?
The plural of middleness is middlenesses.

Words near middleness in the dictionary

  1. middlemast
  2. middlemasts
  3. middlemen
  4. Middlemiss
  5. middlemost
  6. middleness
  7. middleoftheroader
  8. middleoftheroaders
  9. middlepeople
  10. middleperson
  11. middlepersons

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