halfheartedness

See also: half-heartedness

English

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Etymology

From halfhearted +‎ -ness.

Noun

halfheartedness (uncountable)

  1. The characteristic of being halfhearted.
    • 2025 July 20, Matthew Walther, “Sorry, This Epstein Stuff Isn’t Going to Hurt Trump”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 July 2025:
      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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