toughmindedness en · NOUN
Etymology
From toughminded + -ness.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of tough-mindedness.
alt of tough-mindedness
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.
1969, Mahlon Brewster Smith, Social Psychology and Human Values: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 44: