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wrong-mindedness

wrong-mindedness is the alternative form of wrongmindedness.

Meaning of wrongmindedness

Noun

wrongmindedness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being wrongminded; mistaken reasoning
    • No doubt he thought he had critically exposed its wrongmindedness and destroyed its claims to acceptance as a serious or coherent theory of law.2013, Michael H. Hoffheimer, Justice Holmes and the Natural Law, →ISBN, page 13
  2. Corruption; the state or quality of being evil or wrongminded.
    • If someone attributes these miracles to Beelzebub's spirit, not through ignorance but through malice, his wrongmindedness is past hope.1988, Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel, Paraphrase on Mark, →ISBN, page 54

Origin of wrong-mindedness

From wrong-minded + -ness.

Questions about wrong-mindedness

What is wrong-mindedness the alternative form of?
Wrong-mindedness is the alternative form of wrongmindedness.

Words near wrong-mindedness in the dictionary

  1. wrong-headedly
  2. wrong-headedness
  3. wrong-headednesses
  4. wrong-minded
  5. wrong-mindedly
  6. wrong-mindedness
  7. wrong-place-wrong-timing
  8. wrong-take
  9. wrong-think
  10. wrong-thinks
  11. wrong-timed

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