Synonyms for broad-mindedness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : brawd-mahyn-did |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbrɔdˈmaɪn dɪd |
Top 10 synonyms for broad-mindedness
- acceptance
- bodhi
- clemency
- compassion
- comprehension
- concession
- cultivation
- culture
- edification
- education
- endurance
- forbearance
- freedom
- good will
- grace
- humanity
- impartiality
- indulgence
- information
- instruction
- interest
- kindness
- knowledge
- learning
- lenience
- leniency
- lenity
- liberalism
- liberality
- liberalness
- license
- magnanimity
- mercifulness
- mercy
- observance
- open-mindedness
- patience
- permission
- permissiveness
- receptiveness
- receptivity
- refinement
- responsiveness
- sensitivity
- sufferance
- sympathy
- teaching
- tolerance
- toleration
- understanding
Définition of broad-mindedness
Origin :- 1590s; see broad (adj.) + minded. This abstract mental sense of broad existed in Old English; e.g. bradnes "breadth," also "liberality."
- As in lenience : noun tolerance
- As in lenity : noun tolerance
- As in open-mindedness : noun openness
- As in openness : noun openmindedness
- As in receptiveness : noun openness
- As in receptivity : noun openness
- As in responsiveness : noun openness
- As in toleration : noun tolerance
- As in enlightenment : noun awareness, understanding
- I was pleased with my broad-mindedness, that enabled me to see all sides of the baby question.
- Extract from : « The Promised Land » by Mary Antin
- You see how quickly his broad-mindedness is replaced by most careful caution.
- Extract from : « The Young Priest's Keepsake » by Michael Phelan
- I don't see that their broad-mindedness is getting them anything.
- Extract from : « The Plastic Age » by Percy Marks
- As an instance of his broad-mindedness, the following extract from his Diary for June 20th is interesting.
- Extract from : « The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll » by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
- What a relief it is occasionally to meet with broad-mindedness on the part of those who are charged with our education.
- Extract from : « Deering of Deal » by Latta Griswold
- I know, of course, full well one frequent consequence of the broad-mindedness which results.
- Extract from : « Platform Monologues » by T. G. Tucker
- He could not thus easily surrender his pride of original thought and broad-mindedness.
- Extract from : « A Voice in the Wilderness » by Grace Livingston Hill
- Wideness of the palm denotes generosity, broad-mindedness, etc.; while a narrow palm denotes the reverse.
- Extract from : « How to Read Human Nature » by William Walker Atkinson
- Billy was a country fellow with little experience of life, and broad-mindedness was not a conspicuous trait of his character.
- Extract from : « The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World » by Margaret Vandercook
- Nine times out of ten a man's broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him.
- Extract from : « What I Saw in America » by G. K. Chesterton
Antonyms for broad-mindedness
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