English

Noun

mentalité ‎(plural mentalités)

1. A person's feelings about the wider society and world in which they live, and their place within in; a worldview, outlook.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 67:

     Yet changing a traditional economic mentalité was an uphill task and, significantly, Law never fully disenchanted even his most intimate supporters (and maybe even himself) with customary forms of wealth [...].

   • 2012, Frank McLynn, ‘What's Your Take?’, Literary Review 404:

     David Thomson's objectives in this big, ambitious book are nothing short of Promethean, for he aims to deliver both a comprehensive history of the movies and a Marshall McLuhan-style examination of the mentalités produced by watching films and television.

French

Etymology

From Latin mentalis, itself from mens ‎(“mind”).

Noun

mentalité f ‎(plural mentalités)

1. mentality