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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being a half or an incomplete state of something; the state of not being a whole or of being partial; incompleteness; imperfection.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The quality of being half; incompleteness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality of being half; incompleteness.

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half +‎ -ness

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