mentality
മനോഭാവം
definition
noun
the yuppie mentality of the eighties
the characteristic attitude of mind or way of thinking of a person or group.
Logic and illusion become confused and you find it hard to express your highly developed and sensitive mentality .
the capacity for intelligent thought.
example
You are just looking at these old cases where judges in the grip of colonial 'mentality' applied English law.
The wife will have spent years feeling excluded from that club 'mentality' .
Orchestras must break the concert hall 'mentality' and become their own media players.
I suppose we've just got that winning 'mentality' , and that can become a habit.
Several of us do many a ritual out of sheer herd 'mentality' rather than with real interest or understanding.
Human beings are very much alike, and every culture is rooted in a universal human 'mentality' .
However, I like to believe that we do manage to suppress the outsider's 'mentality' .
Diderot came to resent the burden which had taken up too much of his life, the more so as 'mentality' had not evolved for the better as much as he had hoped.
I had inherited not only my father's blood but his bourgeois 'mentality' as well
the yuppie 'mentality' of the eighties
He has the scorers' 'mentality' and is at the right time to establish himself as a top class player.
Logic and illusion become confused and you find it hard to express your highly developed and sensitive 'mentality' .
Some would claim that this ivory-tower 'mentality' was reflected in his music.
I came to England and ended up in a council flat, so I grew up with a working class 'mentality' .
It's the same old imperialist 'mentality' , the same denial of other people's rights.
machines can possess 'mentality'
Lee Gilmour reckons the Bulls' play-anywhere 'mentality' is one of their main strengths.
You have got to be someone with a different kind of 'mentality' to make that work for you.
For a new life to begin 'mentality' must join with this special matter and thus the round of birth and death continues.
Football must avoid the kind of closed shop 'mentality' that permeates other sports.
You get them together and that herd 'mentality' takes over and bad things seem to come of it.
The result of this 'mentality' was that all concern with Nature was dominated by theory.
Tocqueville notes that with effort he - and we - can enter this peasant's 'mentality' .
This criterion is attractive even insofar as human 'mentality' is concerned.
If you use taxis as often as I do, you'll know how drivers' attitudes and 'mentalities' are a hazard to us and hardly ever to themselves.
The news covers race motivated attacks and discrimination, and rightly so, but while that can, in theory, be punishable, small-town 'mentalities' and home-grown attitudes cannot.
In a subsequent class, a student asked if a shy person might maintain both guard and prisoner 'mentalities' in a self-imposed psychological prison.
Those who wage such struggles may choose to sport middle-class suits and exploit the spread of advanced technology, but their 'mentalities' are a mixture of the anti-modern, the millenarian and the tribal in outlook.
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