halfness
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English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
halfness (usually uncountable, plural halfnesses)
- The quality of being half; incompleteness.
- 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation:
- As soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor feels the wrong.
References[edit]
- “halfness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.