MEDIATENESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being mediate

Synonyms:

mediacy; mediateness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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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