mental
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós Proto-Italic *məntom Latin mentum Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English mental c. 1727, from Latin mentum (“the chin”) + -al.
Definitions
Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response…
Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
Of, relating to, or affected by a psychiatric disorder.
- a mental patient
Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way.
- That was a mental party last night.
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Of or relating to telepathic or mind-reading powers.
- mental telepathy
State of mind
State of mind; ellipsis of mental state.
- y'all need to fix your mentals
A mentally challenged person.
Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
- the mental nerve, the mental region
Of or relating to the chinlike or liplike structure.
A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
The neighborhood
Derived
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Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at mental. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at mental. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at mental
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA