English > mental attitude: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | A complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways / ways. |
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| Synonym | attitude |
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| Narrower | credence, acceptance | The mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true |
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| culture | The attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social ... / social group or organization |
| defensive, defensive attitude | An attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase 'on the defensive') |
| disrespect | A disrespectful mental attitude |
| hardball | A no-nonsense attitude in business or politics |
| high horse | An attitude of arrogant superiority |
| inclination, disposition, tendency | An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others |
| intolerance | unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs |
| irreverence | An irreverent mental attitude |
| mentality, outlook, mindset, mind-set | A habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations |
| orientation | An integrated set of attitudes and beliefs |
| paternalism | The attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good |
| position, stance, posture | A rationalized mental attitude |
| respect, esteem, regard | An attitude of admiration or esteem |
| reverence | A reverent mental attitude |
| southernism | An attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US) |
| tolerance | willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others |
| Broader | cognition, knowledge, noesis | The psychological result of perception / perception and learning and reasoning |
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| Spanish | actitud, disposición, postura |
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| Catalan | actitud, disposició, postura |
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