single-mindedness

1. 1.

   characterized by one unified purpose

   Broaderresoluteness

Questions about single-mindedness

What does single-mindedness mean?

single-mindedness means "characterized by one unified purpose".

How many syllables are in single-mindedness?

single-mindedness has 5 syllables and divides as sin-gle--min-ded-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is single-mindedness a common word?

single-mindedness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.