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单词 betweenity
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betweenityn.

/bɪˈtwiːnɪti/
Etymology: A playful formation on between prep., adv., and n., after words from Latin, such as extremity , vicinity : see -ity suffix.
Intermediateness of kind, quality, or condition; anything intermediate.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [noun]
mediocrity1588
indifferency1608
indifference1690
indifferentness1727
betweenity1760
commonness1779
passableness1779
flavourlessness1865
middlingness1866
normalcy1893
passable1908
1760 H. Walpole Corr. (1820) II. 174 The house is not Gothic, but of that betweenity that intervened when Gothic declined and Palladian was creeping in.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 76 A little ruinous cottage, white-washed once, and now in a sad state of betweenity.
1824 Q. Rev. 31 167 It is really provoking to find [Miss Mitford using] such low and provincial corruptions of language as ‘transmogrified,’ ‘betweenity,’ ‘dumpiness.’
1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 448 To rejoin heads, tails, and betweenities, which Hayley had severed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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