Etymology

mentalism

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Today it means: The doctrine that physical reality exists only because of the mind's awareness. Full definition →

English mental ← Middle French menta ← Late Latin mentāli
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*men-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*méntis
  3. Proto-Italic*mentis
  4. Latinmēns
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  7. Late Latinmentāli
  8. Middle Frenchmenta
  9. Englishmental
  10. English todaymentalism

From mental + -ism.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.