mentality

== English == === Etymology === From mental +‎ -ity. Doublet of mentalité. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ælɪti IPA(key): /mɛnˈtæləti/, /mənˈtæləti/, /-ɪti/ === Noun === mentality (plural mentalities) A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs. The characteristics of a mind described as a system of distinctive structures and processes based in biology, language, or culture, etc.; a mental system. 1978, Edward Proffitt, "Romanticism, Bicamerality, and the Evolution of the Brain", The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 9, No.1, reprinted in Kuijsten, 2016, page 129. […] the new mentality [of Romantic poetry]...is a mentality of self-authorization. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== Kuijsten, Marcel (ed.). Gods, Voices and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes, Julian Jaynes Society, 2016 (312 pgs). →ISBN