mindset

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Mind and personality
-hearted
-heartedly
-heartedness
alexithymia
allism
allistic
alter ego
ambivert
Asperger's syndrome
gender identity
gestaltist
jib
neurotypicality
noddle
noetic
noggin
non-identity
psychoanalysis
psychoanalytic
subconscious

mentality | American Dictionary

mentality
noun[ U ]
us/menˈtæl·ɪ·t̬i/
a person’s or group’s way of thinking about things:
They buy everything on credit – they have this play now, pay later mentality.

mentality | Business English

mentality
noun[ C,usually singular ]
uk /menˈtæləti/uspluralmentalities
the particular way that a person or group thinks about things:
We need to end this credit-card mentality and start living within our means.

Examples of mentality

mentality
What have to be examined are the social and psychological mechanisms leading to such changes of preference, disposition or mentality.
These advances ushered in a new economic mentality.
Second, although neither an authoritarian nor a sultanistic regime derives legitimacy and motivation from ideological sources, a "mentality" may drive an authoritarian regime's policies.
It is a mentality that provides fertile ground for conspiracy theories.
Among the important features of the new system is a corporate mentality in which much of the "fat" of traditional medical education seems disposable.
This drive represents a rediscovery of the sense of mastery over individual existence and after 1900 becomes the most profound unifier across nations and mentalities.
Professional interests were linked to a set of mentalities that prevented medical men from seeing how religious belief might aid them in their clinical undertaking.
This difference in bureaucratic structure and mentality may also have influenced differing attitudes toward borders.
The mentality of the gold standard proved resistant to change even under the most pressing economic circumstances.
This relegates the social bandit to a world of beliefs and mentalities entirely separated from any ' physical ' history.
By the middle of the nineteenth century a new mentality prevailed.
Our mentality is still too correct, our theatrical norm too laden with an aura of darkened mystification.
A crucial feature of early modern mentalities was that such beliefs were commonly held at both the popular and the elite level.
He explained the effect of crowd psychology on individual mentality as the replacement of cerebral control by the dominance of the spinal cord.
It consisted among other things of changes in values, lifestyles and mentalities.
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