tenderminded

Definitions

1. Nurturing, compassionate, and forgiving.
2. Idealistic.

Examples

“According to this theory, sexual and aggressive impulses are conditioned into tenderminded social attitudes, and the qualities associated both with femininity and with religiosity belong⟳ to this domain of tenderminded social attitudes.”

“Among ethnologists what is certainly an idiographic approach⟳ is often pursued with the most ascetic toughmindedness. Where fact reigns supreme, any attempt⟳ at theory may appear⟳ tenderminded.”

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