soft-mindedness

See also: softmindedness

English

Etymology

soft-minded +‎ -ness

Noun

soft-mindedness (uncountable)

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