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MEDIATENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mediateness mean?
• MEDIATENESS (noun)
The noun MEDIATENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being mediate
Familiarity information: MEDIATENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being mediate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
mediacy; mediateness
Hypernyms ("mediateness" is a kind of...):
indirectness (having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal)
Derivation:
mediate (acting through or dependent on an intervening agency)
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