0 the quality of being very determined and thinking only about achieving a particular thing:
His quiet single-mindedness allowed him to accomplish something that others had been trying to do for years.
They demonstrated a remarkable single-mindedness in pursuing their goals.
She had a strong will, and a single-mindedness and determination to succeed as an artist.
She has always shown an astonishing single-mindedness about her career.
They pursued, with extraordinary single-mindedness, strategies which would make the bureaucracy the primary structure of political leadership.
That single-mindedness breathes fresh air into a subject that has grown stale over the years.
With single-mindedness, he turned his attention to the discovery of what for him would have been a basic and satisfying account of the atomic nature of matter.
It is with such single-mindedness that support is being denied to our crumbling family system.
Its single-mindedness and its insistence on one absolute principle has its appeal.
