mentalistic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterized by appeal to mental states (such as beliefs, desires, intentions, feelings) in describing, explaining, or predicting behaviour or other phenomena; employing or pertaining to vocabulary or predicates about such states (often contrasted with behaviorist or purely physicalist approaches).
adj
Of or relating to mentalism or mentalists.
Example Sentences
- "Mentalistic explanations allay curiosity and bring inquiry to a stop."
- "In this respect, our familiar mentalistic vocabulary (viz. our talk of thoughts, feelings, and expectations) would be similar in important respects to other theoretically embedded vocabularies."
- "Predicate dualism is the theory that psychological or mentalistic predicates are essential for a full description of the world and are not reducible to physicalistic predicates."
- "The findings … show that syntactic information is a more reliable indicator of mentalistic interpretations than even the most cooperative contextual cues."
Etymology
From mentalist + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more mentalistic (comparative)
most mentalistic (superlative)