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mentalese

noun
/ˌmɛnt(ə)lˈiːz/UK/ˌmɛn(t)l̩ˈiz/US

Etymology

From mental + -ese (suffix forming adjectives and nouns describing, among other things, languages).

  1. derived from mentālis
  2. borrowed from mental
  3. suffixed as mentalese — “mental + ese”

Definitions

  1. A hypothetical non-verbal language in which concepts are represented in the mind.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of mentalese.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mentalese. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA