closed-mindedness
Refusing new ideas
Closed-mindedness is the unwillingness to consider new ideas, perspectives, or evidence that conflicts with existing beliefs.
It suggests intellectual rigidity—a refusal to entertain alternatives: His closed-mindedness about the research made collaboration impossible.
The term is almost always critical, implying the person could be more open but chooses not to be.
Intolerance toward differing views
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- xenophobiaHatred of outsiders
homophobia · racism · sectarianism · chauvinism · ethnocentrism · parochialism · insularity · illiberalism
Unyielding adherence to doctrine
- incuriosityAbsence of inquisitiveness
- anti-intellectualismHostility toward educated thought
- ignoranceAbsence of knowledge
- myopiaBlurry distance vision
provincial · unquestioning · uncritical · unexamined · simplistic · reductionist · black-and-white thinking · confirmation bias
Unable to bend
- stubbornRefusing to change course
- obstinateFirmly refusing to yield
- dogmaticAsserting opinions as facts
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
unbending · intransigent · uncompromising · hidebound · opinionated · pig-headed · bull-headed · immovable
Unwilling to accept ideas
- dismissiveShowing contemptuous disregard
- defensiveProtective or easily threatened
- resistantWithstanding external forces
- imperviousUnable to be affected
unresponsive · blocked · shut off · walled off · guarded · unapproachable · unopen · rejecting
bigotry
Intolerance toward differing views
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
xenophobia · homophobia · racism · sectarianism · chauvinism · ethnocentrism · parochialism · insularity · illiberalism · fanaticism
dogmatism
Unyielding adherence to doctrine
- incuriosityAbsence of inquisitiveness
- anti-intellectualismHostility toward educated thought
- ignoranceAbsence of knowledge
myopia · provincial · unquestioning · uncritical · unexamined · simplistic · reductionist · black-and-white thinking · confirmation bias · echo chamber
inflexible
Unable to bend
- stubbornRefusing to change course
- obstinateFirmly refusing to yield
- dogmaticAsserting opinions as facts
unyielding · unbending · intransigent · uncompromising · hidebound · opinionated · pig-headed · bull-headed · immovable · adamant
unreceptive
Unwilling to accept ideas
- dismissiveShowing contemptuous disregard
- defensiveProtective or easily threatened
- resistantWithstanding external forces
impervious · unresponsive · blocked · shut off · walled off · guarded · unapproachable · unopen · rejecting · refusing
- ___-mindedness words
- bad attitudesnegativity, cynicism, pessimism, hostility, contempt
- mindsetsopen mind, beginner's mind, siege mentality, herd mentality, victim mentality
- social attitudesracism, sexism, ageism, xenophobia, homophobia
- stubbornnessstubbornness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, bullheadedness, mulishness
- closed-mindednessinflexibility, rigidity, rigid thinking, dogmatism, stubbornness
closed-mindednessopen-mindedness
Acceptance of differing viewpoints
receptiveness · receptivity · openness · broad-mindedness · mental flexibility
closed-mindednessintellectual curiosity
Desire to learn and understand
intellectual humility · epistemic humility · inquisitiveness · freethinking · critical thinking
closed-mindednesstolerance
Willingness to accept difference
liberalism · progressivism · cosmopolitanism · pluralism · inclusiveness
close, closed, minded, closeness, closure, mindset, open-minded, narrow-minded, open-mindedness