mid-world

noun

1

obsolete : middle-earth

2

a

: an intermediate realm

neither beast nor bird, it inhabits an anomalous mid-world

—Saturday Review

b

: a body (as of persons) occupying an intermediate position (as between two attitudes or opinions)

this mid-world of persons, no longer hostile or indifferent to religion, though not as yet ecclesiastically or theologically minded

—W. L. Sperry

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