mentality

Noun

Meaning

Quality or state of mind.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

brain outlook wit mindset brainpower mind-set mental capacity character head reason sense psychology cerebellum capacity understanding
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Antonyms

body clod animalism ignorance misunderstanding disbelief
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Hypernyms

intelligence attitude mental attitude

Phrases with the word

defeatist mentality change in mentality bad mentality good mentality victim mentality gang mentality

Examples

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. Liu Xiaobo

If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality. Adolf Loos

To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit. African Spir

[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad. Bashar al-Assad

America is a young country with an old mentality. George Santayana

That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but: "You have to flee." and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality. Hugo Chávez

Close letter words and terms

mentalism mentalist mentalistic mentalization mentalize mentalizing