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tenderminded

adj

Etymology

From tender + minded.

  1. inherited from *méntis✻ — “thought”
  2. inherited from *mundiz✻
  3. inherited from *mundi✻
  4. inherited from mynd
  5. inherited from minde
  6. suffixed as minded — “mind + ed”
  7. compounded as tenderminded — “tender + minded”

Definitions

  1. Nurturing, compassionate, and forgiving.

    • According to this theory, sexual and aggressive impulses are conditioned into tenderminded social attitudes, and the qualities associated both with femininity and with religiosity belong to this domain of tenderminded social attitudes.

  2. Idealistic.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for tenderminded. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA