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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

via media en · NOUN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin via media (“a middle way”).

Meanings

  1. A third way; a middle course, a compromise.
    • The quip highlighted the extent to which the philosophes were seeking a via media between what they saw as the morally and intellectually impoverished tradition of Christian revelation and its embattled polar opposite, a sceptical materialism [...]. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 199:

Relateds

middle ground · golden mean