soft-mindedness
Appearance
See also: softmindedness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From soft-minded + -ness.
Noun
[edit]- the state or quality of being soft-minded.
- 2014, Bryan Loritts, Letters to a Birmingham Jail, →ISBN:
- Building on the case for tough-mindedness, King identifies the dangers of soft-mindedness. He writes that the soft-minded are prone to embrace all kinds of superstitions.
- 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby:
- The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this, an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.