Etymology

longminded

L1O1N1G2M3I1N1D2E1D2

Today it means: Patient; longanimous. Full definition →

Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

From long + minded. Compare Old English langmōd (“patient, long-suffering”, literally “long-mood”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.