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halfheartedness

noun

Etymology

From halfhearted + -ness.

  1. inherited from herted
  2. compounded as halfhearted — “half + hearted”
  3. suffixed as halfheartedness — “halfhearted + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The characteristic of being halfhearted.

    • But the halfheartedness of his acquiescence is instructive. This is the closest he has ever come to a betrayal — waffling on a cherished myth — despite repeatedly failing to deliver on so much of his supposedly radical political program.

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