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Tough-mindedness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The characteristic of being tough-minded; lack of sentimentality and unswerving conviction. uncountable

    "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..."

Etymology

From tough-minded + -ness.

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