middleness

English

Etymology

From middle +‎ -ness.

Noun

middleness (usually uncountable, plural middlenesses)

1. The quality of being middle, or in the middle.
   • 1997, Marion Montgomery, Romantic Confusions of the Good: Beauty as Truth, Truth Beauty, page 74:

     The poem is heavily concerned with a middleness, and with an attempt to understand this middleness in relation to beginnings.

   • 2001, Andrew R. L. Cayton, Susan E. Gray, The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History, page 186:

     Even during the era of Middle Western ascendancy early in the century, the qualities that distinguished the Middle West were associated with middleness.

Related terms

• mediocrity
• middlingness
• midness

Translations

Translations

Spanish: medianidad f (uncommon)