mentality
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4.4
- noun
- /mɛnˈtælɪti/
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mentalidad
- She approached every challenge with a positive mentality, believing she could overcome any obstacle.
- consumer mentality
- cultural mentality
- crisis mentality
So it's funny how your mentality changes as time goes on.
- So it's funny how your mentality changes as time goes on.
- Now that's the leadership mentality that we're having nationwide.
- I feel like people like Steve Wozniak who have that mentality, they don't stop.
- So it's this ingrained mentality that people have with success.
- And so I just maintain the new guy mentality just like everyone else.
- But it's had put this old iPhone style mentality into into building this car.
- So they have adopted our mentality about helping others.
- Change from that taker's mentality and come to the family.
- I'm just saying my mentality, not my energy.
- There's a fear mentality placed on people that work there.
- It's just pure grind mentality and I've been there.
- That sort of mentality is is born out of that?
- You saw the mentality that he has today, OK.
Examples
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A lot of times the group mentality is wrong.
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And if you don't have that mentality, it will start to slow down.
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So it's funny how your mentality changes as time goes on.
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It's just this mentality of, well, this is my job.
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Is there any sort of life advice or mentality or something to try on?
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So, that was the problem with my mentality back then.
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" I would like to see much more moving away from that crisis mentality," he added.
Academic text (1999) -
My reading of the British mentality is that they always treat a trap as a challenge.
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So it's this ingrained mentality that people have with success.
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I feel that that mentality is widely respected around the world in most surfers.
Synonyms
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4.3
A usual way of thinking that affects how a person acts
119
3.5
A general feeling or expectation about the future
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4.1
A way of thinking and feeling that affects how you act
Antonyms
Compounds
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7.9
A defensive, isolated attitude people develop after being criticized many times
- Jargon
An optimistic belief among investors that prices keep rising, causing strong buying
- Philippine
A habit of trying to pull others down when they succeed because you feel jealous
- Jargon
A competitive attitude that puts your interests ahead of others, ignoring teamwork
- Slang
A way of thinking that rejects authority and social rules, often among young people
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mentality comes from the Latin word mens meaning 'mind' and the ending -ity that shows a state, like in mental. So mentality means a usual 'way of thinking' that shapes how someone reacts and makes decisions.