toughmindedness

See also: tough-mindedness

English

Etymology

toughminded +‎ -ness

Noun

toughmindedness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of tough-mindedness
    • 1969, Mahlon Brewster Smith, Social Psychology and Human Values: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 44:
      Among ethnologists what is certainly an idiographic approach is often pursued with the most ascetic toughmindedness. Where fact reigns supreme, any attempt at theory may appear tenderminded.
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