Mentality

Quick meaning: Mentality is a noun meaning A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs.

Meaning

A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs.

More Meanings

1. The characteristics of a mind described as a system of distinctive structures and processes based in biology, language, or culture, etc.; a mental system.

Example Sentences

Before he can succeed, he will have to shed the mentality that he can get by without hard work.

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.

[…]with a mentality anchored in a profoundly influential and persistent hostility to central features of the Enlightment faith in the theoretical and practical autonomy of the human subject.

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.

Word Forms

• mentalities

Synonyms for mentality

Depending on context, synonyms include outlook, brain, brainpower, wit.

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