civicmindedness

See also: civic-mindedness

English

Etymology

From civicminded +‎ -ness.

Noun

civicmindedness (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of civic-mindedness
   • 2008, Ezra Cappell, American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction, →ISBN, page 57:

     In Bellow's early work, American hardboiledness, inherited from the English gentleman and having been bequeathed from classical notions of honor and civicmindedness, was an ideal far removed from the striving, conniving, Jewish immigrant milieu.