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highmindedness

highmindedness noun: quality of being high-minded.

Noun

highmindedness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being high-minded.
    • It was a Victorian concept and its life force perished with the Victorian Age. Victorian in pomp and grandeur, Victorian in the public-school code of its Government, its Philistinism, its middle-class standards of virtue, its creaming of the large Victorian families for its administrators and...1948, Henry Vincent Hodson, Twentieth-century Empire, page 102

Origin of highmindedness

From high-minded + -ness.

Questions about highmindedness

What does highmindedness mean?
Highmindedness means quality of being high-minded.
What part of speech is highmindedness?
Highmindedness is a noun.

Words near highmindedness in the dictionary

  1. highly-strung
  2. highman
  3. highmen
  4. highminded
  5. highmindedly
  6. highmindedness
  7. Highmore
  8. highmost
  9. Highnam
  10. highnecked
  11. highness

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