strongmindedness

See also: strong-mindedness

English

Etymology

strongminded +‎ -ness

Noun

strongmindedness (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of strong-mindedness
   • 2013, Ford Madox Ford, Delphi Complete Works of Ford Madox Ford (Illustrated), →ISBN:

     To account for Edith's coldness on the subject of Hollebone is easy, for, with the natural tendency for fair-brown haired women, who by some racial accident not uncommon in so mixed a nation as ours, have inherited a certain but insufficient amount of strongmindedness, Edith was somewhat hysterical in character, given to obeying her moods and impulses unduly...

   • 1980, Paul Fussell, Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars, →ISBN:

     Such a formulation at least would recognize the importance of his Germano-Scottish origins while doing justice to the Puritan determination of his atheism and hedonism, the stubborn assiduity of his pederasty, and the strongmindedness of his performance as a British eccentric abroad.