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mentality
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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Psychology, psychiatrymentalmen‧tal /ˈmentl/●くろまる●くろまる●くろまるS2W2AWL adjective1[only before noun]MIMPrelating to the health or state of someone’s mind → psychiatricThe centre provides help for people suffering from mental illness.Stress has an effect on both your physical and mental health.2[only before noun]MPMIND relating to the mind and thinking, or happening only in the minda child’s mental developmentYou need to develop a positive mental attitude.mental picture/image (=a picture that you form in your mind)I tried to get a mental picture of him from her description.3 →make a mental note4 →mental block5 →go mental6[not before noun] British English informalCRAZY thinking or behaving in a way that seems crazy or strangeHe must be mental!7British English informal very confused, busy, or excitingI had a mental time at the festival – there was all sorts of crazy stuff going on! —mentally adverbI was exhausted, both physically and mentally.Examples from the Corpusmental• The power goes beyond that which can be defined as physical or mental.• That guy's mental!• In people who are not esoterically developed, the mental and emotional bodies are in a rudimentary or nascent state.• After months of overworking, Briggs was suffering from mental and physical exhaustion.• The popular health movement also looks at health in a holistic way - the physical, mental and spiritualaspects.• Rick had a completementalbreakdown after his family died in a car crash.• Swiney proposed that women's racialsuperiority was evidenced both by their physical and mentalcapabilities and in their internalcellularcomposition.• It takes a lot of mentaleffort to understand these ideas.• He craved effort, especially mental effort.• mental health• There had been, the broadcastadded unexpectedly, a history of mentalinstability.• Recently escaped from the state mentalinstitution.• a mental institution• Violentmentalpatients were kept in a separateward.• a hospital ward for non-violentmental patients• I'd never met Jane's boyfriend, but I had a clearmentalpicture of what he looked like.• We knew she had been having mental problems.mental health• He says that managedcarefirmsintegrate physical and mental health care.• By 1987 five inpatientunits in general hospitals had been created and thirteen mental health centres.• Intervieweesreported that a few service users had refused to allow their names to be placed on a mental healthdatabase.• Mrs Carterpushed for mental healthlegislation and regularly attendedcabinetmeetings.• The first is to provide now a mental health service specifically for hosteldwellers or those living on the streets.• United Behavioral Health, however, applied only for the mental health services component.• Planning proposals for a new system of mental health services for the areas of Lisbon and Oporto were developed.• The mental health system was even worse.mental picture/image• Slowly, the process converges on a piece of art that is an expression of the user's own mental image.• Somewhere between the event and the sentence is a mental picture.• Visualization / Imagery-This techniquecombinesrelaxationexercises with the creation of mental images.• Lydecker says she can tune in to animals' mental images and feel their emotional and physical sensations.• They learn to let words create a mental picture and to then make a replica of their vision.• She had an acutemental picture of him.• Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton.• This is in order to provide the reader with a mental picture of the house as the technicaloptions are discussed.Originmental(1400-1500)FrenchLate Latinmentalis, from Latinmens"mind"