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toughmindedness

toughmindedness is the alternative form of tough-mindedness.

Meaning of tough-mindedness

Noun

tough-mindedness (uncountable)

  1. The characteristic of being tough-minded; lack of sentimentality and unswerving conviction.
    • Subsequently turning the new insight into action—embodying the idea, producing the revolutionary behavior—requires tough-mindedness, the willingness to try out behavior and allow his or her ideas to die in his or her stead...2008, Mihnea C. Moldoveanu, Roger L. Martin, The Future of the MBA: Designing the Thinker of the Future, →ISBN, page 53

Origin of toughmindedness

From toughminded + -ness.

Questions about toughmindedness

What is toughmindedness the alternative form of?
Toughmindedness is the alternative form of tough-mindedness.

Words near toughmindedness in the dictionary

  1. toughing out
  2. toughish
  3. toughly
  4. toughminded
  5. toughmindedly
  6. toughmindedness
  7. toughness
  8. toughnesses
  9. toughra
  10. toughras
  11. toughs

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