Meanings
nounmiddleness (usually uncountable, plural middlenesses)
plural middlenesses
- uncountableusuallyThe 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 741 more example
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
Origin
Translations
Spanish medianidad
- medianidadTranslations
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