tender-minded

[ ten-der-mahyn-did ]

/ ˈtɛn dərˈmaɪn dɪd /

compassionate and idealistic.

Origin of tender-minded

First recorded in 1595–1605

These two systems are what you have to choose between if you turn to the tender-minded school.

Pragmatism |William James
And even the young and the tender-minded learn to look on the calamities that touch them not, as things of mere artistic meaning.

The Daltons, Volume II (of II) |Charles James Lever
Tender-minded and tough-minded, what a barbaric disjunction!

Pragmatism |William James
For he was by no means a tender-minded nor gentle man, but very ferocious.

The Iliad of Homer (1873) |Homer

He differentiated them as the "tough-minded," and the "tender-minded."

Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology |C. G. Jung