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soft-mindedness en · NOUN

Etymology

From soft-minded + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) the state or quality of being soft-minded.
    • 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. 2014, Bryan Loritts, Letters to a Birmingham Jail, →ISBN:
    • 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. 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby: