tenderminded

See also: tender-minded

English

Alternative forms

• tender-minded

Etymology

From tender +‎ minded.

Adjective

tenderminded (comparative more tenderminded, superlative most tenderminded)

1. Nurturing, compassionate, and forgiving.
   • 2009, Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins, Jeff Astley, Empirical Theology in Texts and Tables, →ISBN, page 146:

     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.

2. Idealistic.
   • 1969, Mahlon Brewster Smith, Social Psychology and Human Values: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 44:

     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.

Derived terms

• tendermindedly
• tendermindedness