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golden mean

noun

  1. the perfect moderate course or position that avoids extremes; the happy medium.


golden mean

noun

  1. the middle course between extremes
  2. another term for golden section
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

golden mean

  1. The desirable middle ground between any two extremes, according to the philosophy of Aristotle .
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Origin of golden mean1

First recorded in 1580–90
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And yet, she still recommends Aristotle's "golden mean," which she summarizes as "the right emotion or the right action for the right context in the right amount."

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He’d used an artist’s technique called “the golden mean” to divide the picture into imaginary thirds both vertically and horizontally, like a tic-tac-toe board.

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Mr. Dunwoody showed us how to find the golden mean using proportions and a ruler, but none of us really got it, not even Clive Pike.

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Spago today lands squarely in the golden mean of upscale dining: modern but not exactly modernist; elegant but not stuffy; stimulating but rarely thrilling.

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Yet between rules that are too rigid and no effective rules at all, there is a golden mean.

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