Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person's responses to and interpretations of situations.
- n. An inclination or a habit.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
Etymologies
- From mind + set. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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”.”
“It takes a certain mindset to enjoy doing this, and I suspect that mindset is different from non-screen-readers.”
“This mindset is a big shift from just a few years ago.”
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“Update: This mindset is also pretty much explains the two-tier ethics/morals standard the left uses upon itself.”
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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.”
“What kind of mindset is that that you have to start killing unborn babies in order to help people?”
“Maybe this kind of mindset is why so much, including the political situation, is so screwed up in this country nowadays?”
“This "mindset" is what is now running Congress and the Say WA Legislature ...”
“My mindset is look, all that is over, I've moved on," Herzog said.”
“So hopefully once we start practicing on Saturday [if] he's feeling pretty good and his mindset is ready to go, he's had a few days of conditioning and he'll be ready to go this week.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mindset’.
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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Lifehacking
Start with the effect, the what; signal-patch known-belief spirit. "Write my program, routine me." New cue vs brand loyalty. Ritual Ceremony Design Technologies, Inc.
confusion, misdirection, fractionation, disequilibrium, relaxation, repetition, impassioned, intensity, suddenly, shock, concentration, focus and 118 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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fifi
verbs Adj Adv noun
indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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Vocalublary Awareness
Words I need to use more to increase my vocabulary.
incredulous, prolific, ubiquitous, egregious, aplomb, resilience, persevere, punctilious, perspicacious, inordinate, articulate, enunciate and 199 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 1991 more...
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fitting words
a list of words from the indo european root ar- and variations : to fit together
ambry, rede, coarctate, anarthrous, artiodactyl, exordium, harmony, army, armoire, arm, armada, armadillo and 349 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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A new vocabulary
achievement gap, barriers, guidance, advocacy, benchmarks, boundaries, equity, microskills, self-disclosure, antiracist, facilitation, experiential and 41 more...
Tweets
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