MENTAL ATTITUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mental attitude mean? 

• MENTAL ATTITUDE (noun)
  The noun MENTAL ATTITUDE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MENTAL ATTITUDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENTAL ATTITUDE (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

attitude; mental attitude

Context example:

he had the attitude that work was fun

Hypernyms ("mental attitude" is a kind of...):

cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental attitude"):

position; posture; stance (a rationalized mental attitude)

orientation (an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs)

irreverence (an irreverent mental attitude)

reverence (a reverent mental attitude)

disrespect (a disrespectful mental attitude)

esteem; regard; respect (an attitude of admiration or esteem)

intolerance (unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs)

tolerance (willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others)

disposition; inclination; tendency (an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others)

acceptance; credence (the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true)

paternalism (the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good)

mentality; mind-set; mindset; outlook (a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations)

southernism (an attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US))

high horse (an attitude of arrogant superiority)

hardball (a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics)

defensive; defensive attitude (an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase 'on the defensive'))

culture (the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization)

 Context examples 

A habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how a person will interpret and respond to situations.

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