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'Wrongheadedness' is the noun for the quality described by 'wrongheaded': thinking that is aimed in the wrong direction and stays there. It is uncountable, and it usually appears in a small set of shapes — 'the wrongheadedness of the policy', 'sheer wrongheadedness', 'a mixture of arrogance and wrongheadedness'. When you turn the criticism into a noun like this, you can name it as a thing and then talk about it: how big it is, where it came from, what it cost. The word is long, formal, and clearly the voice of writing rather than speech — editorials, reviews, history books, serious essays. Nobody says it at dinner. Because it names a fault in how someone thinks (not just what they got wrong), it is a strong criticism, and writers often it with 'a certain' or aim it at a plan rather than a person: 'the wrongheadedness of the whole approach' is easier to publish than calling a named person wrongheaded. If you feel the word is too heavy, plain English works: 'they were thinking about it in completely the wrong way'.
想法偏差、執迷不悟(名詞;書面批評用語,如「這項政策的荒謬與固執」)
組成wrongheaded(想法偏差的)+ -ness(名詞字尾,把形容詞變成「…的性質、狀態」)——「腦袋朝錯方向的那種狀態」。
同家族的字
- wrongheadedthe adjective this noun is built from
- kindnessthe same '-ness' ending turning an adjective into a quality
- stubbornnessanother '-ness' noun, and close in meaning
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
wrongheadednessnoun
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The state of being wrongheaded.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。