MENTALITY - 7 definitions found
mentality n 1: a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations [syn: mentality, outlook, mindset, mind-set] 2: mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense" [syn: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit] Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary mentality (mentalities) Your mentality is your attitudes and your way of thinking. ...a criminal mentality... Running a business requires a very different mentality from being a salaried employee. N-COUNT: usu sing, with supp English Explanatory Dictionary mentality menˈtælɪtɪ n. (pl. -ies) 1 mental character or disposition. 2 kind or degree of intelligence. 3 what is in or of the mind. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Mentality \Men*tal"i*ty\, n. Quality or state of mind. ``The same hard mentality.'' --Emerson. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) mentality menˈtælɪtɪ n. 1 intelligence, brain, capacity, intellect, wit, sense, judgement, acuity, acumen, I.Q., rationality, understanding: I'd say that Frank is a man of average mentality. 2 inclination, attitude, bent, mind-set, disposition, frame of mind, temperament, outlook, view: The news betrays little about what is actually happening, but much about the mentality of the leadership. They criticized Britain's 'island mentality'. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 68 Moby Thesaurus words for "mentality": IQ, Vernunft, acuity, acumen, apprehension, attitude, bent, brain, brains, caliber, capacity, comprehension, conception, consciousness, deductive power, discourse of reason, discursive reason, disposition, esemplastic power, esprit, frame of mind, gray matter, head, headpiece, ideation, inclination, integrative power, intellect, intellection, intellectual faculty, intellectual grasp, intellectual power, intellectualism, intellectuality, intelligence, intelligence quotient, judgement, knowledge, mens, mental age, mental capacity, mental grasp, mental ratio, mind, mind-set, mother wit, native wit, nous, outlook, power of mind, power of reason, psyche, ratio, rationality, reason, reasoning, reasoning faculty, reasoning power, sanity, scope of mind, sense, smarts, temperament, thinking power, understanding, view, wise man, wit |
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