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Webster 1913 Edition

(häf′nĕs)

Noun.

The quality of being half; incompleteness.

[R.]

As soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at

halfness

, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor feels the wrong.

Emerson.

halfness ‎(usually uncountable, plural halfnesses)

The quality of being half; incompleteness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  As soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor feels the wrong.