mentalité
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /mɛntalɪˈteɪ/
Noun
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 2003, p. 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?’, Literary Review 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.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 67:
French
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- “mentalité” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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