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Broad-mindedness   /brɔd-mˈaɪndɪdnəs/   Listen
Broad-mindedness

noun
1.
An inclination to tolerate or overlook opposing or shocking opinions or behavior.





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"Broad-mindedness" Quotes from Famous Books



... believe broad-mindedness and clean thinking are a question of locality? I can't agree with you. I know nothing of the present Far West, not having lived there for ten years, but Curt and I have lived in the Far East and I'm sure he'd agree with me in saying that Chinese ancestor worship is far more dignified ...
— The First Man • Eugene O'Neill
... to impress on his hearers the need for a generous broad-mindedness in their attitude towards the foe. England was a great civilised nation, and so was Germany. The war would be fought in an honourable, straightforward manner, as between high-souled enemies. Christian charity enjoined on us to be especially kind and considerate ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... to Michael when he came back in September, 1917, to make some further investigations into bone grafting. He seemed genuinely pleased at her broad-mindedness, and said it would indeed be delightful when the War was over—and it surely must be over soon—now Mr. Lloyd George and Clemenceau and President Wilson had taken it in hand—it would indeed be delightful to form a circle of close friends who ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston
... of ten a man's broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is, when we come to think of it, quite inevitable. His vision of his own village may really be full of varieties; and even his vision of ...
— What I Saw in America • G. K. Chesterton
... of The Mass, and the popularity which it earned by outraging every civic and national decency, stands in my mind as a striking example of the extraordinary laxity and slackness of moral which had grown out of our boasted tolerance, broad-mindedness, and cosmopolitanism. We had waxed drunken upon the parrot-like asseveration of "rights," which our fathers had won for us, and we had no time to spare for their compensating duties. This misguided ...
— The Message • Alec John Dawson


Words linked to "Broad-mindedness" :   broad-minded, tolerance, narrow-mindedness


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