Tenderminded
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From tender + minded.
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