long-headednessn.

1818 Yellow Dwarf 11 Apr. 118/2 No enlarged views were opened, no long-headedness appeared.

1863 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtoniana I. xi. 188 The practical long-headedness, the ready adaptation of shrewd wit to immediate circumstance.

1866 J. R. Lowell Swinburne in Prose Wks. (1890) II. 128 Ulysses was the type of long-headedness.

1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 188 Men have been solving problems that required..the peculiar quality called longheadedness.

1962 V. S. Pritchett London Perceived iii. 56 The island that has so often been the first in manufacture, trade, craft, political long-headedness, [etc.].

2004 E. M. Yoder Telling Others What to Think 176 Powell had the kind of long-headedness that seems often to be lacking in the post-Powell court.

1866 T. H. Huxley in S. Laing Pre-hist. Remains Caithness 100 But apart from the insufficiency of M. de Belloguet's evidence for the long-headedness of the Belgic Gauls, Dr. Thurnam's reasoning in favour of the contrary conclusion appears to me to be almost conclusive.

1880 W. B. Dawkins Early Man in Brit. ix. 324 The Iberic element in the population of Spain has mainly contributed to the long-headedness of the modern Spaniard.

1959 Arch. Dis. in Childhood 34 59/2 There is little general agreement on the signs [of ‘true’ microcephaly] although long-headedness (‘Aztec form’) is the one on which there is best accord.

2009 Human Biol. 81 409 Laughlin argued that population size in the eastern Aleutians (about 10,000) was sufficiently large for selection on cranial shape to counter the effects of drift, altering the Paleo-Aleut long-headedness into the Neo-Aleut round-headedness.