mentality

men·tal·i·ty

noun \men-ˈta-lə-tē\

plural men·tal·i·ties

Definition of MENTALITY

1

: mental power or capacity : intelligence

2

: mode or way of thought : outlook <the imperialist mentality of the nineteenth century — John Davies>

Examples of MENTALITY

1. <most teenagers do not have the mentality to foresee the consequences of such risky behavior>

First Known Use of MENTALITY

1691

Related to MENTALITY

Synonyms: brain(s), brainpower, gray matter, headpiece, intellect, intellectuality, intelligence, reason, sense, smarts

Related Words: eggheadedness, highbrowism, intellectualism; braininess, brilliance; acumen, alertness, apprehension, astuteness, discernment, discriminability, insight, judgment (or judgement), perception, percipience, perspicacity; common sense, horse sense, mother wit; aptitude, talent; sagacity, sapience, wisdom, wit; head, mind, skull

Near Antonyms: denseness, density, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, fatuity, feeblemindedness, foolishness, half-wittedness, idiocy, imbecility, senselessness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity

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Other Psychology Terms

fetish, hypochondria, intelligence, mania, narcissism, neurosis, pathological, psychosis, schadenfreude, subliminal

Rhymes with MENTALITY

anality, banality, brutality, carnality, causality, centrality, extrality, fatality, feudality, finality, formality, frontality, frugality, legality, lethality, locality, modality, morality, mortality, nasality, natality, neutrality, nodality, orality, plurality, primality, rascality, reality, regality, rurality, sodality, tonality, totality, venality, vitality, vocality