tenderminded

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1. Nurturing, compassionate, and forgiving.

   According to this theory, sexual and aggressive impulses are conditioned into tenderminded social attitudes, and the qualities associated both with femininity and with religiosity belong to this domain of tenderminded social attitudes.

   2009, Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins, Jeff Astley, Empirical Theology in Texts and Tables, →ISBN, page 146

2. Idealistic.

   Among ethnologists what is certainly an idiographic approach is often pursued with the most ascetic toughmindedness. Where fact reigns supreme, any attempt at theory may appear tenderminded.

   1969, Mahlon Brewster Smith, Social Psychology and Human Values: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 44