mentality
Meaning of mentality
- the characteristic way of thinking of a person or group.
I had inherited not only my father's blood but his bourgeois mentality as well
- the capacity for intelligent thought.
machines can possess mentality
late 17th century (in the sense ‘mental process’): from the adjective mental + -ity. Current senses date from the mid 19th century.
Information about mentality
- It is a name.
- The plural form of mentality is: mentalities.
- Languages in which mentality is used:
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Hyphenation of mentality
men-tal-ity
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- mentality is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
mentality synonyms
Meaning outlook:
Meaning brain:
Meaning the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought:
Meaning the mental characteristics or attitude of a person or group:
Meaning the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character:
Meaning the aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others:
Meaning the human soul, mind, or spirit:
Meaning a person's inherent qualities of mind and character:
Meaning a person's or animal's nature, especially as it permanently affects their behaviour:
Meaning a person's state of mind seen in terms of their being angry or calm:
Meaning the faculty of reasoning and understanding objectively, especially with regard to abstract matters:
Meaning the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills:
Meaning an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating centre of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity:
Meaning the ability to understand something:
Meaning the power of abstract thought; intellect:
Meaning the capacity for inventive thought and quick understanding; keen intelligence:
Meaning the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way:
Meaning the quality of being based on or in accordance with reason or logic:
Meaning the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgement; the quality of being wise:
Meaning a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch:
Meaning the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses:
Meaning the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses:
Meaning a quantity of bread that is shaped and baked in one piece and usually sliced before being eaten:
Translation of mentality
- Spanish: actitud, mentalidad
- Portuguese: mentalidade
- French: mentalité
- Italian: mentalità
Words that rhyme with mentality
Biblicality, Equality, Leviticality, Scripturality, abmodality, abnormality, aboriginality, accentuality, accidentality, accidentiality, achirality, actuality, acyclicality, adverbiality, aeriality, alamodality, ality, allodiality, alodiality, ambilaterality, ambisexuality, amorality, anality, analyticality, animality, anormality, anticommerciality, antimorality, antineutrality, antinormality, antiplurality, antirationality, antireality, antisensuality, antisexuality, antisociality, apoliticality, archiepiscopality, areality, artificiality, asexuality, atonality, attentionality, atypicality, autocephality, aviatoriality, axiality, balmorality, banality, bestiality