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betweenhood en · NOUN

Etymology

From between + -hood. Compare German Zwischenheit (“betweenness”).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being between or in-between; intermediate condition; betweenness.
    • Mörike, writes one scholar, is situated historically in a state of Zwischenheit, or “betweenhood”; [...] 2000, Susan Youens, Hugo Wolf and his Mörike songs:
  2. (uncountable) That which is between or in-between; anything intermediate.
    • This fence, this gap, this indeterminate betweenhood, is the discursive condition of semiotics, as the semiotic is the condition of all conversation. 2004, Anne Freadman, The machinery of talk: Charles Peirce and the sign hypothesis: