Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person's responses to and interpretations of situations.
- noun An inclination or a habit.
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- noun A way of
thinking ; anattitude oropinion , especially ahabitual one.
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- noun a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
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Examples
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Eli, helpfully, makes it clear where the difference in mindset is when he discusses parents in the inner city who have the fortitude to raise children who can actually make an effort to tale advantage of an education: the fact that they possess the parenting fortitude their ghetto-peers do not is for me no greater emergency than that of the “left behind”.
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It takes a certain mindset to enjoy doing this, and I suspect that mindset is different from non-screen-readers.
August « 2007 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2007
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It takes a certain mindset to enjoy doing this, and I suspect that mindset is different from non-screen-readers.
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This mindset is a big shift from just a few years ago.
Micki Krimmel: "Green" Is More Than a Buzzword at Opportunity Green Micki Krimmel 2010
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Update: This mindset is also pretty much explains the two-tier ethics/morals standard the left uses upon itself.
Why the left can excuse Ted on Chappaquiddick « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2009
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Sounds like he and I did things our way regardless of the outcome ... obviously his outcomes were far superior to mine but the mindset is the same.
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Maybe this kind of mindset is why so much, including the political situation, is so screwed up in this country nowadays?
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Maybe this kind of mindset is why so much, including the political situation, is so screwed up in this country nowadays?
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What kind of mindset is that that you have to start killing unborn babies in order to help people?
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This "mindset" is what is now running Congress and the Say WA Legislature ...
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