midthought

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mid- +‎ thought

Noun[edit]

midthought (uncountable)

  1. Some time during a thought.
    • 2007 February 15, Anne Midgette, “A New Work for Cello, Played Upon a Veteran”, in New York Times[1]:
      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[edit]

midthought (not comparable)

  1. During a thought; in midthought.