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mentality|mɛnˈtælɪtɪ|
[f. mental a.1 + -ity.]
1. That which is of the nature of mind or of mental action.
1691Baxter Rep. Beverley 15 But tell us whether it be only a Spiritual Mentality, superangelical, or the Soul and Body of a Man at his Incarnation. 1890A. R. Wallace in Nature 24 July 291 An insect's very limited mentality. 1899E. Griffith-Jones Ascent thro. Christ iii. iii. 385 There is a vast store of mentality even in the higher animals which has not yet been brought to perfection.
2. Intellectual quality, intellectuality.
1856Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. Lit. Wks. (Bohn) II. 104 Hudibras has the same hard mentality. 1900G. Santayana Poetry & Relig. 258 Pope..is too intellectual and has an excess of mentality.
3. Mental character or disposition; outlook; kind or degree of intelligence.
1895Funk's Stand. Dict., Mentality..cast or habit of mind. 1911Beerbohm Zuleika D. viii. 132 Your words show up your good heart... Your mentality, too, is bully, as we all predicate. 1922Joyce Ulysses 132, I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money. 1926Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 348/1 ‘The mentality of the politician is a constant source of amazement to the engineer.’ Twenty years ago, no-one would have written that. 1931L. Watt Future of Capitalism ii. 23 It is useless to pretend that there will be anything but hostility between the partners in industry so long as this mentality persists. 1958R. F. C. Hull tr. Jung's Coll. Works XI. vii. 480 Something of the kind happens as soon as we are confronted with the Eastern mentality. |