The Collaborative International Dictionary
Halfness
Halfness \Half"ness\ (h[aum]f"n[e^]s), n. The quality of being half; incompleteness. [R.]
As soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and
attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good
for him, my neighbor feels the wrong.
--Emerson.
Wiktionary
halfness
n. The quality of being half; incompleteness.
Usage examples of "halfness".
This strange sense of fatality in Gerald, as if he were limited to one form of existence, one knowledge, one activity, a sort of fatal halfness, which to himself seemed wholeness, always overcame Birkin after their moments of passionate approach, and filled him with a sort of contempt, or boredom.