单词 | narrow-mindedness |
释义 | narrow-mindednessn. The quality or condition of being narrow-minded. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > [noun] narrow-mindedness1646 parvanimitya1691 narrowness1697 narrow-spiritedness1709 little-mindedness1767 narrow-mindeda1774 contraction1775 illiberality1775 smallness1813 illiberalism1839 narrow-heartedness1850 single-track mind1919 tunnel vision1949 1646 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) I. p. xxxiv Persons that endeavour to put narrow-mindedness out of countenance, by the practice of so extensive a charity. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. ii. §33. 164 The Jews..being led thereto by the same Narrow-mindedness. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 300 The sources of narrow-mindedness, considered as a fault of the Will. 1835 T. Arnold in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1844) II. viii. 16 The narrow-mindedness of every sect plays out its own play. 1889 G. Findlay Working & Managem. Eng. Railway 6 Every weapon that the prejudice and narrow-mindedness of the many..could devise. 1939 Philos. Rev. 48 151 When it [sc. Sparta] perished it left only memories of Spartan discipline, courage, and narrow-mindedness. 1987 J. Uglow George Eliot i. 15 Evans's determination and decisiveness could harden into obstinacy and narrow-mindedness. 2001 Irish Times (Electronic ed.) 13 Oct. Tony Blair appears to have crossed into messianic delusion based on a colonial narrow-mindedness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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