borderlineness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From borderline + -ness.
Noun
[edit]borderlineness (uncountable)
- The quality of being borderline.
- 2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page 144:
- We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.
Translations
[edit]quality
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