mentality
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /mɛnˈtæləti/, /mənˈtæləti/, /-ɪti/
mentality (plural mentalities)
- A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs.
- Before he can succeed, he will have to shed the mentality that he can get by without hard work.
- The characteristics of a mind described as a system of distinctive structures and processes based in biology, language, or culture, etc.; a mental system.
- 1978, Edward Proffitt, "Romanticism, Bicamerality, and the Evolution of the Brain", The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 9, No.1, reprinted in Kuijsten, 2016, page 129.
- […] the new mentality [of Romantic poetry]...is a mentality of self-authorization.
- 2016, Scott Greer, "A Knowing Noos and a Slippery Psyche:Jaynes's Recipe for an Unnatural Theory of Consciousness", in Kuijsten, 2016, page 239.
- Our mentality - whether bicameral or conscious - is thus more a function of social context, language, and forms of communication than a hard-wired neurologically-based system.
- 1978, Edward Proffitt, "Romanticism, Bicamerality, and the Evolution of the Brain", The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 9, No.1, reprinted in Kuijsten, 2016, page 129.
- French: mentalité
- German: Mentalität
- Italian: mentalità
- Portuguese: mentalidade
- Russian: менталите́т
- Spanish: mentalidad
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