middleness

English

Etymology

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.
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