Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anat, of or pertaining to the mentum or chin; genial.
- Of or pertaining to the mind; specifically, belonging to or characteristic of the intellect; intellectual: as, the mental powers or faculties; a mental state or condition; mental perception.
- Done or performed by the mind; due to the action of the mind.
- Relating to the mind; concerned with the nature, attributes, or phenomena of the human intellect: as, mental philosophy; mental sciences.
- noun An Oriental water-tight basket, having four ropes attached, by which two men raise water from a stream or cistern and discharge it into a trench for irrigation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the chin; genian
- noun (Zoöl.) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the mind; intellectual
- adjective insanity.
- adjective the art or practice of solving arithmetical problems by mental processes, unassisted by written figures.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to the
mind or anintellectual process. - adjective colloquial, comparable
Insane ,mad ,crazy . - adjective colloquial, UK, comparable
Enjoyable ;fun . - adjective anatomy Of or relating to the
chin ormedian part of the lowerjaw ,genial . - adjective biology Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like
structure .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the mind
- adjective of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks
- adjective affected by a disorder of the mind
- adjective of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw
- adjective involving the mind or an intellectual process
Etymologies
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Examples
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Psychology, even so empirical a psychology as is possible of demonstration in western schools and colleges, evidences the fact that there is a far greater field of mental operation than is covered by the outer, or _mental_ consciousness.
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Western Science, while performing a marvelous work in piling up fact after fact to support its newly-discovered theory of Evolution, in a way utterly unknown to the Oriental thinker who seeks after principles by mental concentration -- _within_ rather than without -- while actually proving by physical facts the _mental_ conceptions of the
A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga William Walker Atkinson 1897
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They need a positive mental (Int or Wis in this case) which follows the +physical/+mental/- anything format.
EN World D&D / RPG News Transbot9 2009
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Hearing the term mental block, she had always envisioned her barriers as just that, blocks—brightly colored and piled up in a wall between her and whatever she wanted to shut out.
Dark Mirror Diane Duane 1993
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Like many agency heads, SAMHSA Administrator Pamela Hyde has abandoned use of the term mental "illness" and avoids the term "mental health" feeling these are too limiting to their agencies newly formed expansive mission.
DJ Jaffe: Improve Care For Mentally Ill: Eliminate Mental Health Agencies DJ Jaffe 2011
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Like many agency heads, SAMHSA Administrator Pamela Hyde has abandoned use of the term mental "illness" and avoids the term "mental health" feeling these are too limiting to their agencies newly formed expansive mission.
DJ Jaffe: Improve Care For Mentally Ill: Eliminate Mental Health Agencies DJ Jaffe 2011
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Dr. ALLEN FRANCES (Psychiatrist): Over the course of time, we've become looser and looser in applying the term mental disorder to the expectable aches and pains and sufferings of everyday life.
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Clay Shirky used (coined?) the term mental transaction costs to describe the problem with using micropayments (small payments to download articles or music).
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Excerpt: The term mental retardation was supposed to be an improvement.
Archive 2007-01-01 Kay Olson 2007
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Excerpt: The term mental retardation was supposed to be an improvement.
Various NPR disability stories Kay Olson 2007
Prolagus commented on the word mental
They let Lisa go blind
The world was at her feet and she was looking down
They let Lisa go blind
But everyone she knew thought she was beautiful
Only slightly mental
Beautiful, only temperamental.
(Beautiful, by Belle and Sebastian)
August 24, 2008
Telofy commented on the word mental
“The Office, in contrast, and I might have chosen other examples such as I’m Alan Partridge or The League of Gentlemen, is, if only obliquely monumental though avowedly anti-sentimental, certainly ‘mental’ in at least three senses of the word. Firstly, it is cerebral. Secondly, it is anarchic. Thirdly, it is angry.”
—Peter Stear, Mockumentalism: Re-Casting the Void in Contemporary British TV Comedy
January 10, 2010