narrow-mindedness

n

1. narrowness, prejudice, bias, prejudgment, preconception; bigotry, warp, bent, leaning, twist, jaundice, jaundiced eye or view, colored or slanted view; partiality, arbitrariness, one-sidedness, prepossession, made-up mind; sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, male chauvinism, discrimination, racial prejudice, Sociol. ethnocentrism, class consciousness; closed-mindedness, intolerance, illiberality, small-mindedness, pettiness, meanness, lack of scope; blindness, myopia, near-sightedness, shortsightedness, purblindness, tunnel vision, blind side or spot, blinders or blinkers, narrow view or views; uncharitability, ungenerosity, disobligingness; snobbishness, xenophobia, misanthropy, cynicism.

2. conservatism, dogmatism, fanaticism; ultra-conservatism, stiffness, rigidness, hideboundness, creed-boundness, monomania; stubbornness, obstinance, intransigence, immovability, intractability; fixed or rooted ideas; conventionality, orthodoxy, fundamentalism, unprogressive or old-fashioned ideas; pedantry, pedagoguery, Inf. stuffiness; prudishness, prig-gishness, puritanism, middle-class outlook, middle-class morality; self-righteousness, smugness, sanctimoniousness, holier-than-thou attitude, positivism; insularity, parochialism, provincialism, uncatholicity; chauvinism, jingoism, partisanship.