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noun ˈmɛnt(ə)lɪstˈmen(t)ələst 1A magician who performs feats that apparently demonstrate extraordinary mental powers, such as mind-reading. Example sentencesExamples - No. Strays isn't mentalist enough to veer off in that kind of direction, it's all too tight.
- Lambeth was like a 3 year prison sentence in Broadmoor, full of absolute mentalists and knobbers.
- You feed chickens to cows you mentalist.
- Worrying thing is he's a spitting image of a guy I knew a few years back who was borderline mentalist.
- For an uncritical mentalist, no such indeterminacy threatens.
- But as anyone knows, if you lie down and have a forty minute kip in the aisle of a supermarket, the manager will think you are a mentalist and tell you to move on.
- You could, if you were a mentalist, spend £5,000 on a suit, or a cooker, or a set of speakers for your drawing room.
- No he is not, any more than any other lonely, confused mentalist out there.
- It seems there are more mentalists out there than we had at first feared.
- I am a mentalist with over a dozen years' experience reading minds and astonishing audiences.
2British informal An eccentric or mad person. Example sentencesExamples - I then suggested a cardboard cut out of Juliet like the ones of Darth Vader and Stormtroopers that Star Wars mentalists have in their kitchens.
- Even his wife and daughter are less relieved to see him and be rescued than they are concerned by how much of a mentalist he has become.
- Then, over the next half an hour, a bunch of gonzo skateboarders and other mentalists from the mall construct slapstick routines, some of them bordering on the life-threatening.
- It seems there are more mentalists out there than we had at first feared.
- Lambeth was like a 3 year prison sentence in Broadmoor, full of absolute mentalists and knobbers.
- Am I a raving mentalist or does everyone do this?
- You could, if you were a mentalist, spend £5,000 on a suit, or a cooker, or a set of speakers for your drawing room.
- To wit: ever since I've been working here on my own devoid of any human contact, I've been turning into a small-minded tight-fisted anal-retentive mentalist.
- I very much doubt it, you mentalist.
- No he is not, any more than any other lonely, confused mentalist out there.
- My neighbours are mentalists.
- For an uncritical mentalist, no such indeterminacy threatens.
Rhymes documentalist, environmentalist, experimentalist, fundamentalist, instrumentalist, orientalist, ornamentalist, sentimentalist, transcendentalist nounˈmɛnt(ə)lɪstˈmen(t)lˌ̩əst Philosophy An adherent of mentalism. Example sentencesExamples - When I was a sophomore, majoring in journalism, a well-known mentalist and trusted friend persuaded me to try an experiment in which I would deliberately read a client's hand opposite to what the signs in her hand indicated.
- A mentalist is a performer who uses trickery and deception to create the illusion of having paranormal or supernatural powers.
- He's a mentalist, which is recreating, or pretending to read, people's minds - giving the illusion of reading people's minds, all using tricks you can come up with.
- The performance of mentalists may be closer to that of the pseudo-psychics than to magicians.
- Chief among his trophies was Uri Geller, an Israeli-born, disco-era mentalist who claimed, among other things, that he had the ability to soften metal and move a compass needle with his mind.
- In the afternoon there was Marc Salem, the mentalist, who blew my tiny mind by knowing what I was going to say before I even said it.
- ‘Psychics’ who are honest about their deception call themselves mentalists and call their art magic or conjuring.
- There are a number of effects that rely on either increasing or reducing attention at the moment the method is put into play, and mentalists take full advantage of this.
- In 1983, as a mentalist and top research psychologist, Bem was asked to evaluate Charles Honorton's laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.
- Many magicians do what Geller does, but they call themselves magicians, conjurers, or mentalists.
- The main purpose of this particular trip is to do some lectures for magicians and mentalists in various East Coast locations.
- I'm reminded at this point of the great mentalist Joseph Dunninger, who I knew well.
- Few people outside of magic circles are aware of just how accomplished he is as a magician / mentalist.
adjective ˈmɛnt(ə)lɪstˈmen(t)lˌ̩əst Philosophy Relating to mentalists or mentalism. Example sentencesExamples - Chris Weston's detailed, sophisticated art bridges the mundane and the mentalist.
- The ‘special powers’ accusation most often happens in a mentalist or spiritualist act.
- He says that he is deliberately avoiding the trap of trying to specifically define such mentalist terms as mind cognition, perception, and other closely related mentalistic terms.
- It is thus more mentalist than sociobiology, and draws on the explanatory tools of cognitive science, such as the use of the language of information processing to describe the mind.
- Marvin Harris was a brilliant, formidable critic of everyone who flirted with neo-Kantian philosophical idealism and mentalist definitions of social phenomena, from Hegel to Weber and Parsons.
Derivatives adjective Philosophy Convinced that psychology could be a wholly objective science, Watson called for reform in its content and its methods and for the rejection of mentalistic terms such as ‘mind ‘and ‘consciousness.’ Example sentencesExamples - He says that he is deliberately avoiding the trap of trying to specifically define such mentalist terms as mind cognition, perception, and other closely related mentalistic terms.
- During this period, he became a leading figure in US linguistics, replacing a mechanistic and behaviouristic view of language (based on the work of Bloomfield) with a mentalistic and generative approach.
- Psychologists have coined the mentalistic term ‘confirmatory bias’ to explain a phenomenon in which one notices data which seem to confirm one's hypothesis, and ignores data that tend to disconfirm that hypothesis.
- Descartes took a strong mentalistic position, arguing that the mind operated according to its own principles and that it came stocked with innate ideas.
nounˈmen(t)ələst 1A magician who performs feats that apparently demonstrate extraordinary mental powers, such as mind-reading. Example sentencesExamples - But as anyone knows, if you lie down and have a forty minute kip in the aisle of a supermarket, the manager will think you are a mentalist and tell you to move on.
- For an uncritical mentalist, no such indeterminacy threatens.
- No. Strays isn't mentalist enough to veer off in that kind of direction, it's all too tight.
- Worrying thing is he's a spitting image of a guy I knew a few years back who was borderline mentalist.
- It seems there are more mentalists out there than we had at first feared.
- Lambeth was like a 3 year prison sentence in Broadmoor, full of absolute mentalists and knobbers.
- You feed chickens to cows you mentalist.
- No he is not, any more than any other lonely, confused mentalist out there.
- You could, if you were a mentalist, spend £5,000 on a suit, or a cooker, or a set of speakers for your drawing room.
- I am a mentalist with over a dozen years' experience reading minds and astonishing audiences.
2British informal An eccentric or mad person. Example sentencesExamples - To wit: ever since I've been working here on my own devoid of any human contact, I've been turning into a small-minded tight-fisted anal-retentive mentalist.
- My neighbours are mentalists.
- Then, over the next half an hour, a bunch of gonzo skateboarders and other mentalists from the mall construct slapstick routines, some of them bordering on the life-threatening.
- It seems there are more mentalists out there than we had at first feared.
- For an uncritical mentalist, no such indeterminacy threatens.
- I then suggested a cardboard cut out of Juliet like the ones of Darth Vader and Stormtroopers that Star Wars mentalists have in their kitchens.
- I very much doubt it, you mentalist.
- Even his wife and daughter are less relieved to see him and be rescued than they are concerned by how much of a mentalist he has become.
- Am I a raving mentalist or does everyone do this?
- Lambeth was like a 3 year prison sentence in Broadmoor, full of absolute mentalists and knobbers.
- You could, if you were a mentalist, spend £5,000 on a suit, or a cooker, or a set of speakers for your drawing room.
- No he is not, any more than any other lonely, confused mentalist out there.
nounˈmen(t)lˌ̩əst Philosophy An adherent of mentalism. Example sentencesExamples - A mentalist is a performer who uses trickery and deception to create the illusion of having paranormal or supernatural powers.
- When I was a sophomore, majoring in journalism, a well-known mentalist and trusted friend persuaded me to try an experiment in which I would deliberately read a client's hand opposite to what the signs in her hand indicated.
- I'm reminded at this point of the great mentalist Joseph Dunninger, who I knew well.
- Few people outside of magic circles are aware of just how accomplished he is as a magician / mentalist.
- The main purpose of this particular trip is to do some lectures for magicians and mentalists in various East Coast locations.
- The performance of mentalists may be closer to that of the pseudo-psychics than to magicians.
- In the afternoon there was Marc Salem, the mentalist, who blew my tiny mind by knowing what I was going to say before I even said it.
- Many magicians do what Geller does, but they call themselves magicians, conjurers, or mentalists.
- ‘Psychics’ who are honest about their deception call themselves mentalists and call their art magic or conjuring.
- In 1983, as a mentalist and top research psychologist, Bem was asked to evaluate Charles Honorton's laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.
- He's a mentalist, which is recreating, or pretending to read, people's minds - giving the illusion of reading people's minds, all using tricks you can come up with.
- There are a number of effects that rely on either increasing or reducing attention at the moment the method is put into play, and mentalists take full advantage of this.
- Chief among his trophies was Uri Geller, an Israeli-born, disco-era mentalist who claimed, among other things, that he had the ability to soften metal and move a compass needle with his mind.
adjectiveˈmen(t)lˌ̩əst Philosophy Relating to mentalists or mentalism. Example sentencesExamples - The ‘special powers’ accusation most often happens in a mentalist or spiritualist act.
- He says that he is deliberately avoiding the trap of trying to specifically define such mentalist terms as mind cognition, perception, and other closely related mentalistic terms.
- Marvin Harris was a brilliant, formidable critic of everyone who flirted with neo-Kantian philosophical idealism and mentalist definitions of social phenomena, from Hegel to Weber and Parsons.
- It is thus more mentalist than sociobiology, and draws on the explanatory tools of cognitive science, such as the use of the language of information processing to describe the mind.
- Chris Weston's detailed, sophisticated art bridges the mundane and the mentalist.
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