Pronunciations (3)
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/mɛnˈtæləti/
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/mənˈtæləti/
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mɛnˈtæləti
Noun
A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs.
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Before he can succeed, he will have to shed the mentality that he can get by without hard work.
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[…]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.
The characteristics of a mind described as a system of distinctive structures and processes based in biology, language, or culture, etc.; a mental system.
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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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a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
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mental ability
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he's got plenty of brains but no common sense