Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🧠 Mental room 🫙 Space in container
headspace

headspace

4 5.5
Room in your mind to think, plan, and handle feelings and tasks
  • noun
  • /ˈhɛdˌspeɪs/
: espacio mental
  • Before tackling the project, I need to be in the right headspace to focus.
  • take headspace

So doing what you can to reclaim your mental headspace is this habit.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • And that's why it's key to recognize when you're in the wrong headspace.

    Blog text (8)

  • I was in a weird headspace, though.

    Blog text (20)

  • Like I was not in the right headspace clearly.

  • So that they can get themselves back in like that headspace of winning.

  • So it's more like I knew the headspace that I was in.

    The Diary Of A CEO

  • It's like I can very easily get in that headspace again because I live there so much.

    Ear Biscuits

  • I wish you all the best and hope that you can get yourself back into a better headspace.

    Blog text (2)

  • I'm just not in like a great headspace today.

  • And that frees up some kind of headspace for you to just be you.

    Rich Roll

  • We need to get back into that headspace and zero-base our thinking about advertising.

    Blog text (14)

How Much Headspace

ampleness
1 6.7
headspace
4 5.5

Surface Forms

headspace singular
headspaces plural

Morphology

headspace = head + space (semi-transparent) = head + space

Metaphorical extension: 'space in the head' for mental capacity is inferable from components but requires recognizing the figurative use.

Etymology

Headspace pairs head ('mind') and space ('room'), so it means the amount of room in your mind for thinking, planning, or dealing with feelings, which is why we say someone needs headspace when they need time or less pressure to think clearly.