mindset

See also: mind set and mind-set

English

Alternative forms

• mind set, mind-set

Etymology

mind +‎ set

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 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
• growth mindset
• poor is a mindset
• poverty is a mindset

 

Translations

a way of thinking — see also mentality

• 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
• Esperanto: idearo
• Finnish: ajattelutapa, mielenlaatu (fi)
• French: état d’esprit (fr) m, disposition d’esprit (fr) f, mentalité (fr) f
• German: Denkweise (de) f
• 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: 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

  Roman: mentalìtēt (sh)

• Spanish: mentalidad m, actitud (es) f
• Swedish: tankesätt (sv) n
• Turkish: düşünce tarzı
• Welsh: meddylfryd (cy) m

See also

• state of mind

References

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

Anagrams

• mindest