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Single-mindedness   /sˈɪŋgəl-mˈaɪndɪdnəs/   Listen
Single-mindedness

noun
1.
Characterized by one unified purpose.





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"Single-mindedness" Quotes from Famous Books



... given to accept facts without inquiry into their causes. 'I shouldn't wonder if you are right. Drake, I should think, would find his incentive in the work itself. Yes; I believe you are right. It's just his single-mindedness which influences one. There are certain ideas fixed in his mind, combined into one aim, and he lets nothing ...
— The Philanderers • A.E.W. Mason
... been, and probably was, attached to her husband with that fanatical single-mindedness which belongs to women of the East. She may have considered it her bounden duty only. Whether love or duty furnished the motive I cannot tell, but after making all possible inquiries to no purpose she determined to set out herself ...
— Life and sport in China - Second Edition • Oliver G. Ready


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