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Close-mindedness
noun
The characteristic or state of being close-minded.
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Close-mindedness is not confidence.
"Europeans don't have the" -- Webber pauses -- "close-mindedness Americans have.
In one sense, Mr. Boulez's academy of the high modern is a monument to close-mindedness.
"There were so many unemployed people, and it was creating an atmosphere of intolerance and close-mindedness," Ms. Hernandez said.
In situating literature as an antidote for close-mindedness, Saunders connected nationalism and prejudice to the inability to empathize with others unlike us, and our inability to move beyond our projections.
Heine had been bitter in his criticism of the officious close-mindedness of German society and spent much of his life in France, delivering his sarcastic barbs from exile.
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Religion shouldn't be an excuse for intolerance and our laws need to stop making excuses for this kind of close mindedness.
"Closed-mindedness," they said.
Bridging the partisan divide: Salf-affirmation reduces ideological closed-mindedness and inflexibility in negotiation.
Carelessness, gullibility, closed-mindedness, dogmatism, and prejudice and wishful thinking are examples of such qualities.
I find the closed-mindedness of xenophobes bewildering as well as upsetting.
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