Midthought

adv, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Some time during a thought. uncountable

    "All the segments chewed over their ideas yet tended to end inconclusively, sometimes in midthought, as if they had reached the end of productive interaction with that particular line of inquiry."

Adverb
  1. 1
    During a thought; in midthought. not-comparable

Example

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"All the segments chewed over their ideas yet tended to end inconclusively, sometimes in midthought, as if they had reached the end of productive interaction with that particular line of inquiry."

Etymology

From mid- + thought.

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