toughmindedness
See also: tough-mindedness
English edit
Etymology edit
toughminded + -ness
Noun edit
toughmindedness (uncountable)
- Alternative form of tough-mindedness
- 1969, Mahlon Brewster Smith, Social Psychology and Human Values: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 44:
- 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.