wrongmindedness

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English

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Etymology

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From wrongminded +‎ -ness.

Noun

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wrongmindedness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being wrongminded; mistaken reasoning
    • 2013, Michael H. Hoffheimer, Justice Holmes and the Natural Law, →ISBN, page 13:
      No doubt he thought he had critically exposed its wrongmindedness and destroyed its claims to acceptance as a serious or coherent theory of law.
  2. Corruption; the state or quality of being evil or wrongminded.
    • 1988, Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel, Paraphrase on Mark, →ISBN, page 54:
      If someone attributes these miracles to Beelzebub's spirit, not through ignorance but through malice, his wrongmindedness is past hope.