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mentalisms

mentalisms is the plural of mentalism.

Meaning of mentalism

Noun

mentalism (countable and uncountable, plural mentalisms)

  1. The doctrine that physical reality exists only because of the mind's awareness.
  2. Activities such as mind-reading, especially by performers.
  3. Oppression on the basis of neurological type or perceived intelligence.
    • The U.S. military's bombing of a Grenadan mental hospital struck me as significant in the type of target selected. […] Hearing accounts of this atrocity against Grenadan mental patients underscored for me the very real connections between imperialism, racism, and mentalism.1983 December 3, anonymous author, “"Mental Patients" Are People”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 3

Questions about mentalisms

What is mentalisms the plural of?
Mentalisms is the plural of mentalism.

Words near mentalisms in the dictionary

  1. mentalise
  2. mentalised
  3. mentalises
  4. mentalising
  5. mentalism
  6. mentalisms
  7. mentalist
  8. mentalistic
  9. mentalistically
  10. mentalists
  11. mentalities

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