MENTALITY

brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit

(noun) mental ability; “he’s got plenty of brains but no common sense”

mentality, outlook, mindset, mind-set

(noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

mentality (plural mentalities)

A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs.

The characteristics of a mind described as a system of distinctive structures and processes based in biology, language, or culture, etc.; a mental system.

Source: Wiktionary


Men*tal"i*ty, n.

Definition: Quality or state of mind. "The same hard mentality." Emerson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

2 April 2025

COVERT

(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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