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wrongmindedness en · NOUN

Etymology

From wrongminded + -ness.

Meanings

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