mental attitude

1. 1.

   a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways

   “he had the attitude that work was fun”

   Synonymsattitude

   Broadercognition

   Narrowercredenceculturedefensivehardballhigh horsesouthernismmentalitypaternalismpositioninclination

Questions about mental attitude

What does mental attitude mean?

mental attitude means "a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways".

What is another word for mental attitude?

Close synonyms include attitude. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mental attitude a common word?

mental attitude is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.