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betweenity|bɪˈtwiːnɪtɪ|
[A playful formation on between, after words from L., such as extremity, vicinity: see -ity.]
Intermediateness of kind, quality, or condition; anything intermediate.
1760H. Walpole Corr. (1820) II. 174 (D.) The house is not Gothic, but of that betweenity that intervened when Gothic declined and Palladian was creeping in. 1824Miss Mitford Village (1863) 20 A little ruinous cottage, whitewashed once, and now in a sad state of betweenity. 1824Q. Rev. XXXI. 167 It is really provoking to find [Miss Mitford using] such low and provincial corruptions of language as ‘transmogrified,’ ‘betweenity,’ ‘dumpiness.’ 1836Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 448 To rejoin heads, tails, and betweenities, which Hayley had severed. |