WordNet
n. a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; "he had the attitude that work was fun" [syn: attitude]
Usage examples of "mental attitude".
Stoics: people who maintain or affect the mental attitude advocated by the Stoics, a Greek school of philosophy, founded by Zeno about 308 B.
Get them to suspend use of their psychic powers, hold the right mental attitude, and experiments will work for them, too.
Their mental attitude differed from that of tyrants in the way that the attitude of a schoolboy differs from that of a schoolmaster.
She was well pleased with a mental attitude that did not emanate any vengefulness or malicious delight.
I even gave up shoplifting, which altered my lifestyle pretty severely for a while because it had taken me several years to master the kind of skill and mental attitude it takes to walk into a jewelry store and come out with six watches, or in the front door of a tavern and hassle the bartender with a false ID long enough to let a friend slip out the back door with a case of Old Forester.
If we have any free-will, it is - most importantly - to struggle against negative tendencies, to change our inner mental attitude, to develop a more wholesome and spiritual outlook - and to make the effort not to create new karma.
Something of his mental attitude penetrated to her, and she, stopped.