mindset

See also: Mindset, mind set, and mind-set

English

Alternative forms

• mind set, mind-set

Etymology

Etymology tree

English mind

English set

English mindset

From mind + set.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

mindset (plural mindsets)

1. A way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one.

   Earth Day is a way of propagating and celebrating the environmentalist mindset.

   • 2009, “The English Mindset”, performed by Hulaboy:

     You've got to use your weekend / Go nuts if you can / 'Cause you're back out until Monday, back out until Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday / It's the English mindset

   • 2021 October 14, Kristen Rogers, “Mindful eating could change your food habits and overall life. Here’s how to start”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     These behaviors and mindsets contrast with mindful eating, which means using all your physical and emotional senses to experience and enjoy the food choices you make without judgment, said Lilian Cheung, a lecturer and director of health promotion and communication in the nutrition department at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, via email. […] Once you have been mindfully eating for a while, the mindset can apply to other areas of your life.

   • 2021 October 20, “Study captures positive benefits of commuting”, in RAIL, number 942, page 16:

     Some 46% of those polled agreed that the office environment puts them in a better mindset for work, with this figure rising to 55% of 18-34-year-olds.

Synonyms

• mentality

Derived terms

• being poor is a mindset
• fixed mindset
• grindset
• growth mindset
• poor is a mindset
• poverty is a mindset

Translations

a way of thinking — see also mentality

• Albanian: mendësi (sq)
• Armenian: մտածելակերպ (hy) (mtacelakerp)
• Bulgarian: начин на мислене (bg) (način na mislene)
• Catalan: ideari m, tarannà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心態 / 心态 (zh) (xīntài), 思維模式 / 思维模式 (sīwéi móshì)

• Danish: tankesæt n, tankegang c
• Dutch: mentaliteit (nl) f, ingelsteldheid f
• Esperanto: idearo
• Finnish: ajattelutapa, mielenlaatu (fi)
• French: état d'esprit (fr) m, disposition d'esprit (fr) f, mentalité (fr) f
• Galician: mentalidade (gl) f, maneira de pensar
• German: Mindset m or n, Denkweise (de) f, Eingestelltheit f, Mentalität (de) f, Denkungsart (de) f, Denkart (de) f, Geisteshaltung (de) f, Geistesart f, Einstellung f
• Greek: νοοτροπία (el) f (nootropía)
• Hindi: मानसिकता f (mānsiktā)
• Hungarian: gondolkodásmód (hu)
• Indonesian: pola pikir (id)
• Italian: mentalità (it) f, modo di pensare
• Japanese: 考え方 (ja) (かんがえかた, kangaekata), 心理 (ja) (しんり, shinri)
• Navajo: áásįįł
• Persian: طرز فکر (fa) (tarz-e fekr)
• Polish: mentalność (pl) f, sposób myślenia m
• Portuguese: mentalidade f
• Russian: склад ума́ m (sklad umá), о́браз мы́слей (ru) m (óbraz mýslej), тип мышле́ния m (tip myšlénija), менталите́т (ru) m (mentalitét)
• Scottish Gaelic: dòigh-smaoineachaidh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: менталѝте̄т

  Latin: mentalìtēt (sh)

• Spanish: mentalidad m, actitud (es) f
• Swedish: tankesätt (sv) n
• Turkish: düşünce tarzı, zihniyet (tr)
• Ukrainian: склад ро́зуму m (sklad rózumu), менталіте́т m (mentalitét)
• Vietnamese: tư duy (vi) (思惟 (vi)), tư tưởng (vi) (思想), tâm lí (vi) (心理 (vi)), lối suy nghĩ
• Welsh: meddylfryd (cy) m

See also

• state of mind

References

• “mindset”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• mindest