MENTALITY


Meaning of MENTALITY in English

men ‧ tal ‧ i ‧ ty AC /menˈtæləti, menˈtælɪti/ BrE AmE noun ( plural mentalities ) [countable]

[ Word Family: noun : ↑ mentality ; adverb : ↑ mentally ; adjective : ↑ mental ]

a particular attitude or way of thinking, especially one that you think is wrong or stupid:

a get-rich-quick mentality

I can’t understand the mentality of the people who are behind this kind of violence.

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THESAURUS

▪ mind what you use to think and imagine things:

My mind was full of big ideas.

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I never know what's going on in her mind.

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At the back of my mind I had the funny feeling that I’d met her somewhere before.

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The same thoughts kept going through my mind and I couldn’t get to sleep.

▪ head the place where someone’s mind is – use this especially when talking about the thoughts that are in someone’s mind:

I can't get him out of my head.

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You need to get it into your head that you've done nothing wrong.

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To keep myself calm, I counted to ten in my head.

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She’s so quiet – you never quite know what’s going on inside her head (=what she is thinking) .

▪ subconscious the part of your mind that influences the way you think or behave, even though you may not realize this is happening, and which makes you have dreams:

She suddenly remembered a traumatic incident that had been buried deep in her subconscious.

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During the daytime our conscious minds are active, but during the night the subconscious takes over.

▪ psyche formal someone’s mind, especially their feelings and attitudes, and the way these influence their character - used especially when talking about people's minds in general:

The need for love is deeply buried in our psyche.

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Freud has provided an account of the human psyche's stages of development.

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The child is simply searching his psyche to find some past event that relates to his new experiences.

▪ mentality a particular way of thinking that a group of people have, especially one that you think is wrong or bad:

I just don't understand the mentality of these people.

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They all seem to have a kind of victim mentality, which makes them think that the world is permanently against them.

▪ the ego technical the part of your mind that gives you your sense of who you are - used especially in Freudian psychology:

the rational world of the ego and the irrational world of the unconscious

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.