mental energy
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- noun
- /ˈmɛn.təl ˈɛn.ər.dʒi/
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energía mental
- Arguing that one or the other is less culpable is ridiculous and a waste of mental energy.
- time and mental energy
I used a hell of a lot of mental energy to stay in the moment.
- I used a hell of a lot of mental energy to stay in the moment.
- It means that we're constraining and narrowing where our mental energy goes in this very precise way.
- Maybe you would prefer it if I did that, but this frees up time and mental energy for other tasks.
- But here you've got all these tactics that are brand new to you that can sort of rob you of the mental energy that you would normally devote to just performance.
- By the time you figure that all out, you have wasted so much mental energy you don't have it to give someplace else.
- S is you've got to get the spiritual energy, the emotional energy, the mental energy and the physical energy in alignment.
- And when Musk walks in, they're showing him how we have quiet spaces for people who need, you know, to get their mental energy restored.
- It's how can we harness all this human mental energy and do some experiments with it and see what higher meaning we can find.
- Rumination is a waste of mental energy and it breaks you out of pushing towards your authentic self and being your best version of you.
- And I have that kind of discipline and willingness to expel, expend the mental energy to going through the record.
- If you can't muscle the, the, if you can't manage the mental energy every week, do it every other week.
Examples
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According to Cooper (1990, p. 108), cognitive load may be viewed as the level of mental energy required to process a given amount of information.
Academic text (2008) -
All of which leaves very little mental energy to make a good judgment about the situation as a whole.
Blog text (27) -
The more decisions we must make, the more mental energy we use up.
Blog text (21) -
Make your important decision in the morning, when your mental energy is at its peak.
Blog text (21) -
Even 5 minutes of daily exercise will help recharge your mental energy.
Blog text (21) -
Do you realize the mental energy I have devoted over the years to forgetting that jerk?
Fiction book (2001) -
But once I got published, I found I just didn't have the mental energy to blog much anymore.
Blog text (17) -
Therefore, the child would not need to spend time or mental energy making sense of the complex whole of the task and was able to concentrate on the most important parts before moving on.
Academic text (2012) -
I love y'all, but I just don't have that kind of time or mental energy.
Blog text (22) -
Make your important decision in the morning, when your mental energy is at its peak.
Synonyms
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1.0
Physical or mental strength that helps you stay active
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3.7
How much physical or mental strength a person has at one time
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9.3
A mental force believed to drive thoughts and feelings
Antonyms
How Energetic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'mental' (relating to thought) modifies 'energy' (stamina or force), so a learner who knows both words can infer 'capacity for mental activity'. This [noun + noun] semantic combination is common cross-linguistically (e.g. Spanish 'energía mental'), making it readily understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Mental energy comes from the image of the mind as a battery or fuel: mental means the mind and energy means the power that makes things work. That's why the phrase means the 'ability to think or focus' and why you can run out of it after hard thinking.