Definition of "mentality" in English

noun

1. A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs.

   • Before he can succeed, he will have to shed the mentality that he can get by without hard work.

2. 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.