intermediacyn.
/ɪntəˈmiːdɪəsi/ rare.
The state of being intermediate; intermediateness; intermediate agency, intervention.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency
mediationc1425
interventure1578
intermise1612
refraction1614
intercedence1640
intervent1657
intervention1665
intermediacy1713
intermedium1805
intermediary1859
mediumship1871
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > [noun] > mean
middlingOE
middlelOE
meanc1450
neutralityc1475
moyen1484
temper?1523
mediety1573
medium1593
temperature1598
temperament1604
intermedial1605
median1635
intermediate1650
average1737
middle term1754
mesne1821
intermediacy1836
intermediary1865
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > middle > [noun] > quality or fact of being intermediate
intervenue1636
interventiona1650
intermediacyc1840
intermediateness1854
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. iii. 127 In Birds, the Auditory Nerve is affected by the Impressions made on the Membrane, by only the intermediacy of the Columella.
1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. 177 I had..fallen into a purgatorial state of intermediacy between sleeping and waking.
c1840 W. Hamilton Lect. Logic App. II. 430 To preserve the order of intermediacy, so that..we assign the middle place to the middle term.
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