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Definition of Levelheadedness
1. Noun. The property of being levelheaded, stable, not overly swayed by passion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Levelheadedness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Levelheadedness
Literary usage of Levelheadedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"The ability to write in a dead language is no measure of a man's ability as a
taxono- mer, nor of his scientific sanity, nor of his general levelheadedness ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"Rarely does a month pass in which he does not find himself in a position requiring
tact, sound judgment, and levelheadedness. If he does not possess these ..."
3. Studies in Humanism by Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1907)
"It speaks well for the levelheadedness of humanity that it has not allowed itself
to be scared to death by the appalling pretensions of these philosophic ..."
4. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"Its main feature is a kind of terrible coolness, a rather awful levelheadedness.
The Englishman makes constant small blunders; but few, almost no, ..."
5. Michigan: A History of Governments by Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Charles Moore (1905)
"... to the earnestness and self- abnegation of the devoted missionary the
levelheadedness so essential to success in the ordinary walks of business life. ..."
6. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1886)
"This unexampled success is due, in a large degree, if we may coin a word of
barbarous sound, to the levelheadedness of its clerical guardians. ..."
7. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1899)
"Bacon, its judgment and levelheadedness in strictly historical questions are
distinctly inferior to Mr. Lewin's ; and I would venture to refer him to the ..."
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