SINGLE-MINDEDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does single-mindedness mean? 

• SINGLE-MINDEDNESS (noun)
  The noun SINGLE-MINDEDNESS has 1 sense:

1. characterized by one unified purpose

  Familiarity information: SINGLE-MINDEDNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SINGLE-MINDEDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by one unified purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("single-mindedness" is a kind of...):

firmness; firmness of purpose; resoluteness; resolution; resolve (the trait of being resolute)

Derivation:

single-minded (determined)

 Context examples 

It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people—with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)