mentalité
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French mentalité. Doublet of mentality.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mentalité (plural mentalités)
- A person's feelings about the wider society and world they live in, and their place within it; a worldview, outlook.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 67:
- Yet changing a traditional economic mentalité was an uphill task and, significantly, Law never fully disenchanted even his most intimate supporters (and maybe even himself) with customary forms of wealth [...].
- 2012, Frank McLynn, “What's Your Take?”, in Literary Review, section 404:
- David Thomson's objectives in this big, ambitious book are nothing short of Promethean, for he aims to deliver both a comprehensive history of the movies and a Marshall McLuhan-style examination of the mentalités produced by watching films and television.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]mentalité f (plural mentalités)
Descendants
[edit]- → Turkish: mantalite
Further reading
[edit]- “mentalité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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