Dictionary

mentality en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /mɛnˈtæləti/
• (US) audio
• /-ɪti/
• /mənˈtæləti/

Etymology

From mental + -ity. Doublet of mentalité.

Meanings

1. 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.
   • […]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. 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:
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.
   • 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. 2016, Scott Greer, A Knowing Noos and a Slippery Psyche:Jaynes's Recipe for an Unnatural Theory of Consciousness, Kuijsten, page 239:
   • 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.

Forms

Deriveds

drawbridge mentality · crab mentality · siege mentality · mob mentality · pack mentality · herd mentality · victim mentality · winning mentality · trench mentality · elbow mentality · plantation mentality

Translations (51)

mk менталите́т (mindset — see also mindset) · nn mentalitet (mindset — see also mindset) · es mentalidad (mindset — see also mindset) · gl mentalidade (mindset — see also mindset) · lv mentalitāte (mindset — see also mindset) · ar عَقْلِيَّة (mindset — see also mindset) · da mentalitet (mindset — see also mindset) · fr mentalité (mindset — see also mindset) · uk менталіте́т (mindset — see also mindset) · hy մտածելակերպ (mindset — see also mindset) · fi mielenlaatu (mindset — see also mindset) · cmn 心態 /心态 (mindset — see also mindset) · it mentalità (mindset — see also mindset) · pt mentalidade (mindset — see also mindset) · pl sposób myślenia (mindset — see also mindset) · sk mentalita (mindset — see also mindset) · vi tư tưởng (mindset — see also mindset) · vi lối suy nghĩ (mindset — see also mindset) · sh менталѝте̄т (mindset — see also mindset) · el νοοτροπία (mindset — see also mindset) · vi tâm lí (mindset — see also mindset) · nl mentaliteit (mindset — see also mindset) · ja メンタリティー (mindset — see also mindset) · hu mentalitás (mindset — see also mindset) · csb mentalnosc (mindset — see also mindset) · nb mentalitet (mindset — see also mindset) · ru менталите́т (mindset — see also mindset) · cs mentalita (mindset — see also mindset) · bg начин на мислене (mindset — see also mindset) · sq mendësi (mindset — see also mindset) · fi mentaliteetti (mindset — see also mindset) · ru мента́льность (mindset — see also mindset) · ja 心理 (mindset — see also mindset) · ja 考え方 (mindset — see also mindset) · hi मानसिकता (mindset — see also mindset) · bg манталитет (mindset — see also mindset) · pl mentalność (mindset — see also mindset) · gd dòigh-smaoineachaidh (mindset — see also mindset) · io mento (mindset — see also mindset) · fa ذهنیت (mindset — see also mindset) · hy մտայնություն (mindset — see also mindset) · vi tư duy (mindset — see also mindset) · cmn 心目 (mindset — see also mindset) · ru склад ума́ (mindset — see also mindset) · ko 심리 (mindset — see also mindset) · cmn 心理 (mindset — see also mindset) · fa طرز فکر (mindset — see also mindset) · de Mentalität (mindset — see also mindset) · sh mentalìtēt (mindset — see also mindset) · ca mentalitat (mindset — see also mindset) · hu gondolkodásmód (mindset — see also mindset)