middleness
nounEtymology From middle + -ness.
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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:
- Related terms
- mediocrity, middlingness, midness