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tenderminded

tenderminded adjective: nurturing, compassionate, and forgiving.

Adjective

tenderminded (comparative more tenderminded, superlative most tenderminded)

  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.2009, Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins, Jeff Astley, Empirical Theology in Texts and Tables, →ISBN, page 146
  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.1969, Mahlon Brewster Smith, Social Psychology and Human Values: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 44

Forms of tenderminded

comparativemore tenderminded
superlativemost tenderminded
alternative formtender-minded

Origin of tenderminded

From tender + minded.

Words formed from tenderminded

Questions about tenderminded

What does tenderminded mean?
Tenderminded means nurturing, compassionate, and forgiving.
What part of speech is tenderminded?
Tenderminded is an adjective.

Words near tenderminded in the dictionary

  1. tenderloin steaks
  2. tenderloins
  3. tenderly
  4. tenderman
  5. tendermen
  6. tenderminded
  7. tendermindedly
  8. tendermindedness
  9. tenderness
  10. tendernesse
  11. tendernesses

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