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Betweenness vs Betweenhood - What's the difference?

betweenness | betweenhood |

As nouns the difference between betweenness and betweenhood

is that betweenness is the state or quality of being between while betweenhood is the state or condition of being between or in-between; intermediate condition; betweenness.

betweenness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state or quality of being between.

    • betweenhood

    English

    Noun

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