halfheartedness

See also: half-heartedness

English

Alternative forms

• half-heartedness

Etymology

From halfhearted +‎ -ness.

Noun

halfheartedness (uncountable)

1. The characteristic of being halfhearted.
   • 2025 July 20, Matthew Walther, “Sorry, This Epstein Stuff Isn’t Going to Hurt Trump”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 July 2025:

     But the halfheartedness of his acquiescence is instructive. This is the closest he has ever come to a betrayal — waffling on a cherished myth — despite repeatedly failing to deliver on so much of his supposedly radical political program.

Translations

characteristic of being halfhearted

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