mentality
Americannoun
plural
mentalities-
mental capacity or endowment.
a person of average mentality.
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the set of one's mind; view; outlook.
a liberal mentality.
noun
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the state or quality of mental or intellectual ability
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a way of thinking; mental inclination or character
his weird mentality
Other Word Forms
- supermentality noun
Etymology
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That "family first" mentality is why he snubbed the Olympic route with Team GB to sign with Frank Warren's Queensberry Promotions.
From BBC
Now that I think about it, I might have a kind of bunker mentality when it comes to gas prices.
As for his mentality, Adams said, “We come to work every single time. We put in the time.”
From Los Angeles Times
Marozzi, who declined to share his voting record over privacy concerns, explained that he can empathize with a no pain, no gain mentality.
From Barron's
Yet even though our two countries are inextricably bound together, and despite the existential nature of Canada’s reliance on the U.S. market, we have maneuvered ourselves into a self-defeating elbows-up mentality.
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