Meanings
plural mind-sets
- alternativeAlternative form of mindset.
1 more example
“It is still the 1950s in North Korea and the conflict with South Korea and the United States is still going on,” says Kathryn Weathersby, a scholar of the Korean War. “People in the North feel backed into a corner and threatened.” There is real value in understanding this paranoid mind-set. It puts the calculated belligerence of the Kim family into context. It also undermines the notion that North Korea is merely a nut-case state.
2015 March 20, Blaine Harden, “The U.S. war crime North Korea won’t forget”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2015, Opinions
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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