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Definition: Narrow-mindedness |
Narrow-mindednessNoun1. An inclination to criticize opposing opinions or chocking behavior. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "narrow-mindedness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| Antonym: broad-mindedness (n). (additional references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Narrow-mindedness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Narrow-mindedness" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "narrow-mindedness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | ahdasmielisyys. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 狭量 , 偏狭 (illiberality, intolerance, narrowness), 固陋 (dislike of new things, stubbornly sticking to old ways). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きょうりょう (bridge, offering), "ろう (dislike of new things, elders, greedy and cruel man, old people, old-timer, seniors, stubbornly sticking to old ways, wild beasts), へ"きょう (border, frontier, illiberality, intolerance, monomania, monomaniac, narrowness, remote region). (various references) | |
Manx | keylid aigney, coonid aigney. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arrow-mindednessnay.(various references) | |
Russian | ограниченность (closed mind, exclusiveness, finiteness, limitedness, narrow mindedness, narrowness). (various references) | |
Thai | ความใจแคบ. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính nhỏ nhen (pettiness), tính hẹp hòi (illiberality, illiberalness, insularism, littleness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Narrow-mindedness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: narrowmindedness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-i-m-n-n-n-o-r-r-s-s-w" | |
-5 letters: dinnerwares, disendowers, dromedaries, nonadmirers, rawinsondes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 72 72 6F 77 2D 6D 69 6E 64 65 64 6E 65 73 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110111 00101101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01100100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a r r o w - m i n d e d n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 0072 0072 006F 0077 002D 006D 0069 006E 0064 0065 0064 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4867848481891579758070717080718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Historic 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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