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Webster 1913 Edition

Mentality

Men-tal′i-ty

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Noun.

Quality or state of mind.

“The same hard mentality.”

Emerson.

Definition 2025

mentality

mentality

English

Noun

mentality ‎(plural mentalities)

A mindset; a way of thinking.
Before he can succeed, he will have to shed the mentality that he can get by without hard work.

Derived terms

crab mentality

Translations

mindset

Arabic: عَقْلِيَّة f ‎(ʿaqliyya)
Armenian: մտածելակերպ (hy) ‎(mtacelakerp)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 心態 (zh), 心态 (zh) ‎(xīntài), 心理 (zh) ‎(xīnlǐ), 心目 (zh) ‎(xīnmù)
Danish: mentalitet c
Dutch: mentaliteit (nl) f
Finnish: mentaliteetti (fi), mielenlaatu (fi)
French: mentalité (fr) f
German: Mentalität (de) f
Greek: νοοτροπία (el) ‎(nootropía)
Ido: mento (io)
Italian: mentalità (it) f
Japanese: 心理 (ja) ‎(しんり, shinri), メンタリティー ‎(mentaritī), 考え方 (ja) ‎(かんがえかた, kangaekata)

Korean: 심리 (ko) ‎(silli) (心理 (ko))
Latvian: mentalitāte f
Macedonian: менталитет m ‎(mentalitét)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: mentalitet m

Nynorsk: mentalitet m
Persian: ذهنیت (fa) ‎(zehniyyat), طرز فکر (fa) ‎(tarz-e-fekr)
Portuguese: mentalidade f
Russian: менталите́т (ru) m ‎(mentalitét), склад ума́ m ‎(sklad umá)
Scottish Gaelic: dòigh-smaoineachaidh f
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: менталѝте̄т

Roman: mentalìtēt (sh)
Spanish: mentalidad f