English noun: mental attitude |
1. | mental attitude (cognition) a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways |
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| Samples | He had the attitude that work was fun.
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| Synonyms | attitude |
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| Broader (hypernym) | cognition, knowledge, noesis |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | acceptance, credence, culture, defensive, defensive attitude, disposition, disrespect, esteem, hardball, high horse, inclination, intolerance, irreverence, mentality, mind-set, mindset, orientation, outlook, paternalism, position, posture, regard, respect, reverence, southernism, stance, tendency, tolerance |
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