mentalités

Noun

mentalité (plural mentalités)

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