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.

ΘΠ

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).

单词	betweenity
释义	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. ΘΠ 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). < n.1760
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