mentalitén.

Brit.

/mɛntalᵻˈteɪ/, U.S.

/mɛnˌtæləˈteɪ/

Inflections: Plural mentalités Brit.

/mɛnˈtalᵻteɪ/, U.S.

/mɛnˈtæləteɪ/.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mentalité.

Etymology: < French mentalité the quality or condition of that which is mental (1842), modes of thought, beliefs, morals, etc., characteristic of a particular group (1877), either < mentality n. or independently < mental mental adj.¹ + -ité -ity suffix. (The French word is normally taken as a loan < English, although the English word is not well attested before 1840: see mentality n.). Compare Italian mentalità (1905; earlier (1846) denoting an essential constituent of the mind), Spanish mentalidad (20th cent.), German Mentalität (c1912), Dutch mentaliteit, all < French.

The attitude of a person or group of people to the world and their conception of their place within it.

ΚΠ

1908 Amer. Hist. Rev. 13 326 Not the least interesting and important of these sources is the mentalité of the medieval Roman people.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 May 10/1 Today it is mentalité, that untranslatable French word meaning the way people regard the cosmos, themselves, and one another, and the values according to which they model their behavior toward each other.

1979 Dædalus Winter 9 The focus is often on cultures and mentalités, but the approach is ethnographic, not political.

1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Apr. 36/2 It attempts to recreate not only the daily experience but what the French call the mentalités of that era.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mentalité
释义	mentalitén. Brit. /mɛntalᵻˈteɪ/, U.S. /mɛnˌtæləˈteɪ/ Inflections: Plural mentalités Brit. /mɛnˈtalᵻteɪ/, U.S. /mɛnˈtæləteɪ/. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mentalité. Etymology: < French mentalité the quality or condition of that which is mental (1842), modes of thought, beliefs, morals, etc., characteristic of a particular group (1877), either < mentality n. or independently < mental mental adj.¹ + -ité -ity suffix. (The French word is normally taken as a loan < English, although the English word is not well attested before 1840: see mentality n.). Compare Italian mentalità (1905; earlier (1846) denoting an essential constituent of the mind), Spanish mentalidad (20th cent.), German Mentalität (c1912), Dutch mentaliteit, all < French. The attitude of a person or group of people to the world and their conception of their place within it. ΚΠ 1908 Amer. Hist. Rev. 13 326 Not the least interesting and important of these sources is the mentalité of the medieval Roman people. 1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 May 10/1 Today it is mentalité, that untranslatable French word meaning the way people regard the cosmos, themselves, and one another, and the values according to which they model their behavior toward each other. 1979 Dædalus Winter 9 The focus is often on cultures and mentalités, but the approach is ethnographic, not political. 1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Apr. 36/2 It attempts to recreate not only the daily experience but what the French call the mentalités of that era. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1908
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