the particular attitude or way of thinking of a person or group synonym mindset心态;思想状况;思想方法 I can’t understand the mentality of people who are unkind to their pets. 我无法理解那些对宠物不友善的人的心态。 a criminal/ghetto mentality 犯罪心态;种族聚居区的思想意识
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMentality is used after these nouns:- frontier
- gang
- herd
- …
Word Originlate 17th cent. (in the sense ‘mental process’): from the adjective mental + -ity. Current senses date from the mid 19th cent.