betweenhood

English

Etymology

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

Noun

betweenhood (uncountable)

1. 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”; [...]

2. 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.