lightmindedness

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English

Etymology

From lightminded +‎ -ness.

Noun

lightmindedness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of light-mindedness
    • 2006, Robin Holt, Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights, →ISBN:
      If this results in a society which MacIntyre has criticized as being the province of the manager, the aesthete and the analyst, types almost sinister in their philosophical lightmindedness, superficiality, programmed uninterestingness, and their depressingly spineless willingness to grant the presence of 'despicable types' for the sake of political freedom, then so be it.