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

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   David Thomson's objectives in this big, ambitious book are nothing short of Promethean, for he aims to deliver both a comprehensive history of the movies and a Marshall McLuhan-style examination of the mentalités produced by watching films and television.

   2012, Frank McLynn, “What's Your Take?”, in Literary Review, section 404