midthought

noun, adv — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From mid- + thought.

Some time during a thought.

All the segments chewed over their ideas yet tended to end inconclusively, sometimes in midthought, as if they had reached the end of productive interaction with that particular line of inquiry.2007 February 15, Anne Midgette, “A New Work for Cello, Played Upon a Veteran”, in New York Times:

adv

Etymology From mid- + thought.

During a thought; in midthought.

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