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mental

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 62.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality. Occurring or experienced in the mind.
    mental science
  2. adjective Occurring or experienced in the mind.
  3. adjective Relating to the mind, its activity, or its products as an object of study.
    mental science
  4. adjective Of or relating to intellectual as contrasted with emotional activity.
    mental acuity
  5. adjective Of, relating to, or being intellectual as contrasted with overt physical activity.
  6. adjective Relating to spirit or idea as opposed to matter.
  7. adjective Of, relating to, or affected by a psychiatric disorder.
    a mental patient
  8. adjective Intended for the care or treatment of persons affected by psychiatric disorders.
    mental hospitals

Similar words

intellectual psychical rational moral psychic genial psychological unhealthy psychogenic mentality

Often followed by

health and illness retardation disorders state processes states disorder activity

Word family

mentality mentally

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