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intermental

intermental

9.5
Between people who share thoughts when they communicate
  • adjective
  • Specialized
translation icon : intermental
  • Intermental thought is joint, group, shared, or collective thought, as opposed to intramental, or individual or private thought.
  • intermental unit
  • intermental thought
  • intermental functioning

Examples

  • I would define these as groups that regularly employ intermental thinking.

    Academic text (2005)
  • The team relied on intermental communication to solve the complex problem effectively together.

  • The reliable mind reading on which any successful intermental unit is based is clearly under threat here.

    Academic text (2009)
  • You may be feeling some doubt about the claim that intermental thought has been neglected.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Why create a new entity of an intermental unit instead of simply talking about individuals working together?

    Academic text (2005)
  • Others are very interested from the beginning in the concept of intermental thought but resist the concept of an intermental mind.

    Academic text (2005)
  • If you draw the line more widely and accept the concept of an intermental cognitive system, then things are explained.

    Academic text (2005)
  • If we look at the passage in the light of the discussion on intermental thought in the previous section, however, then the picture changes completely.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Some of the intermental functioning relates to action.

    Academic text (2005)
  • What are these examples of intermental functioning about, and what are the different types of judgments that are being made?

    Academic text (2005)

Synonyms

interpersonal
vsintermental
30 4.2

About how people relate to and communicate with each other

focuses on shared mental processes and communication between minds
interactional
vsintermental
1 6.7

Relating to communication and how people or things affect each other

is limited to sharing ideas and thought between minds rather than systems
interindividual
vsintermental
  • Specialized
7.7

Happening between different people

emphasizes shared thinking or communication between minds not just difference
interhuman
vsintermental
7.0

Happening between people

focuses on shared mental processes and communication rather than general humanness

Antonyms

2.3

A single person or animal regarded separately from a group

How Shared

collective
240 3.9
intermental
  • Specialized
9.5
interpersonal
30 4.2
private
2.2

Surface Forms

intermental positive

Morphology

intermental = mental (transparent) = inter + mental

Formed by productive prefix 'inter-' (between) added to 'mental' (relating to the mind), so the meaning 'between minds' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Intermental comes from the parts inter- meaning 'between' and mental meaning 'mind', so it describes things that happen 'between minds', like shared thinking or communication.