Meanings
nounbetweenhood (uncountable)
- uncountableThe state or condition of being between or in-between; intermediate condition; betweenness.
Mörike, writes one scholar, is situated historically in a state of Zwischenheit, or “betweenhood”; [...]
2000, Susan Youens, Hugo Wolf and his Mörike songs - uncountableThat which is between or in-between; anything intermediate.
This fence, this gap, this indeterminate betweenhood, is the discursive condition of semiotics, as the semiotic is the condition of all conversation.
2004, Anne Freadman, The machinery of talk: Charles Peirce and the sign hypothesis
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Origin
From between + -hood. Compare German Zwischenheit (“betweenness”).
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