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Discover LudwigThe word 'closed-mindedness' is correct and usable in written English
It refers to the tendency to be unwilling or unable to consider new or different ideas, opinions, or perspectives. Example: The team's failure to innovate can be attributed to their closed-mindedness and resistance to change.
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closed-mindedness
noun
The state or quality of being closed-minded.
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"Closed-mindedness," they said.
I find the closed-mindedness of xenophobes bewildering as well as upsetting.
While absolutism and closed-mindedness may be balms for insecurity, they are not healthy prescriptions for a democracy.
There are many millions of devout Christians, Muslims and others, however, who reject such closed-mindedness and seek to make religion a bridge instead of a barrier.
What America is accused of -- closed-mindedness, stereotyping, ignorance -- is also what its accusers would see if they looked into a mirror.
The mother, a chemist, told me that she was disappointed in the museum's closed-mindedness, as when an introductory film spoke of "atheistic evolution".
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"Europeans don't have the" -- Webber pauses -- "close-mindedness Americans have.
"There were so many unemployed people, and it was creating an atmosphere of intolerance and close-mindedness," Ms. Hernandez said.
Religion shouldn't be an excuse for intolerance and our laws need to stop making excuses for this kind of close mindedness.
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.
The report said this close-mindedness was most evident in the cases of high-strength aluminum tubes, which the agency believed Iraq was trying to acquire to use as centrifuges to enrich uranium -- a prerequisite for developing nuclear weapons.
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