Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Feats of mental power that are not explainable by science, such as telepathy and mind reading.
- noun The doctrine that some mental phenomena cannot be explained by physical laws.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mental activity or process.
- noun The metaphysical opinion that matter is a mode of mind or consciousness; the opposite of materialism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a doctrine that mind is the only true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness.
- noun Any theory of psychology that accepts introspective data about the functioning of the mind as a valid object of study; contrasted to
behaviorism .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The doctrine that
physical reality exists only because of themind 'sawareness - noun Activities such as mind reading, especially when used by
performers
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (philosophy) a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness
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Examples
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But the latter has also exposed our own hypocrisy in mocking America's mentalism.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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But the latter has also exposed our own hypocrisy in mocking America's mentalism.
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In an interview, Mr. Segev, who refers to himself as "The Mentalizer," travels around the world and does many corporate Wall Street events, called Mr. Geller "the father of modern mentalism," and pointed to Mr. Geller's spoon bending as a trick that put him on the map.
Mind Meld With a Mentalist Marshall Heyman 2011
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We hae oor ain kynd o mentalism here in Scotland, ye ken.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Why is the tradition of mentalism alive in Israel, but not so much in America, especially with a role model as dashing as Simon Baker?
Mind Meld With a Mentalist Marshall Heyman 2011
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Why is the tradition of mentalism alive in Israel, but not so much in America, especially with a role model as dashing as Simon Baker?
Mind Meld With a Mentalist Marshall Heyman 2011
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Of course, you do know that my crazy mentalism sometimes runs to writing with arbitrary length-restraints, right?
Twitter Hal Duncan 2009
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Of course, you do know that my crazy mentalism sometimes runs to writing with arbitrary length-restraints, right?
Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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In an interview, Mr. Segev, who refers to himself as "The Mentalizer," travels around the world and does many corporate Wall Street events, called Mr. Geller "the father of modern mentalism," and pointed to Mr. Geller's spoon bending as a trick that put him on the map.
Mind Meld With a Mentalist Marshall Heyman 2011
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Derren Brown's Tricks of the Mind video -- baffling mentalism ...
Boing Boing 2009
ff commented on the word mentalism
I wish I could have some
January 8, 2009
yarb commented on the word mentalism
'"He began muffing the code and he always needed a few shots before going on. Booze and mentalism don't mix."'
- Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham
June 30, 2012