twi-mindedness

alternative twimindedness

1. uncountableThe state, quality, or condition of being twi-minded; double-mindedness.

   This twi-mindedness at length gave rise to a new mode of creating.

   2008, Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker

   3 more examples

   Stapledon refers to Star Maker as "twiminded" (SM 419) and speaks of his "twimindedness" (SM 420).

   1975, Claremont Center for Process Studies, Process studies - Volumes 5-6 - Page 126

   This research reveals the "twi-mindedness" that allowed Joyce to attack Irish nationalism and sectarianism and to break completely with Irish literary tradition while never entirely freeing himself from the traditions and feelings of his native Catholic culture.

   2000, Willard Potts, Joyce and the Two Irelands

   Another example of twimindedness is worthy of slightly extended commentary "I noticed that the emotion gratified them, gave them some sort of pleasure, the way I saw it. [...]"

   2011, J. Hillis Miller, The Conflagration of Community