different between mentality vs intellectuality

English

Etymology

From mental +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æl?ti
• IPA^(key): /m?n?tæl?ti/, /m?n?tæl?ti/, /-?ti/

Noun

mentality (plural mentalities)

1. A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs.

   Before he can succeed, he will have to shed the mentality that he can get by without hard work.
2. The characteristics of a mind described as a system of distinctive structures and processes based in biology, language, or culture, etc.; a mental system.
   • 1978, Edward Proffitt, "Romanticism, Bicamerality, and the Evolution of the Brain", The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 9, No.1, reprinted in Kuijsten, 2016, page 129.

     […] the new mentality [of Romantic poetry]...is a mentality of self-authorization.

   • 2016, Scott Greer, "A Knowing Noos and a Slippery Psyche:Jaynes's Recipe for an Unnatural Theory of Consciousness", in Kuijsten, 2016, page 239.

     Our mentality - whether bicameral or conscious - is thus more a function of social context, language, and forms of communication than a hard-wired neurologically-based system.

Derived terms

• crab mentality

References

• Kuijsten, Marcel (ed.). Gods, Voices and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes, Julian Jaynes Society, 2016 (312 pgs). ?ISBN

Translations

English

Etymology

intellectual +? -ity, from Latin intellectualitas.

Noun

intellectuality (countable and uncountable, plural intellectualities)

1. The characteristic of being intellectual.