borderlineness

borderlineness

English

Etymology

borderline +‎ -ness

Noun

borderlineness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being borderline.
   • 2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language (page 144)

     We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.