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/brɔd-mˈaɪndɪdnəs/ Listen

Broad-mindedness

noun

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

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"Broad-mindedness" Quotes from Famous Books

... stores is little or no shoddy material; in general the stock is the best available. If a biscuit or a bolt of khaki is better made in England than in the United States the commissary stocks with English goods, which is unexpected broad-mindedness for government management. But while prices are lower than in Panama or Colon they are every whit as high as in American stores; and most of us know something of the exorbitant profit our private merchants exact, particularly on manufactured ...

— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck

... you had failed me, but I honored you for attempting no explanation, and I made up my mind that you were the man we wanted. Yes, sir, the man we want. A man who knows how to deal with the situations of to-day, with the vices of a great city, that is what we want. I consider tact, and broad-mindedness and self-sacrifice no small qualities for a minister of the gospel; and a combination of those qualities, as in you, I consider exceptional. So I went to this vestry meeting primed, and I told them we had got to have you, sir—and we've got to. ...

— A Good Samaritan • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

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