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borderlineness

noun

Etymology

From borderline + -ness.

  1. derived from linea
  2. derived from ligne
  3. derived from *līno-✻
  4. inherited from *līną✻
  5. inherited from *līnǭ✻
  6. inherited from *līnā✻
  7. inherited from līne
  8. inherited from line
  9. compounded as borderline — “border + line”
  10. suffixed as borderlineness — “borderline + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being borderline.

    • We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for borderlineness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA