Mentality

/mɛnˈtæləti/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs.
2. 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.

[…]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.

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.

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