mentality

1. 1.

   a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations

   Synonymsoutlookmindsetmind-set

   Broaderattitude
2. 2.

   mental ability

   “he's got plenty of brains but no common sense”

   Synonymsbrainbrainpowerlearning abilitymental capacitywit

   Broaderintelligence

Other forms of mentality

plural

mentalities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mentality

What does mentality mean?

mentality means "a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mentality?

mentality has 4 syllables: men-tal-i-ty. The stress falls on "tal". In IPA it is /mɛnˈtæləti/.

What is another word for mentality?

Close synonyms include outlook, mindset, mind-set, brain, brainpower. 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 mentality a common word?

mentality is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mentality?

5 words rhyme with mentality. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.