mental
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mental/ˈmentl/
▶adjective
- 1 relating to, done by, or occurring in the mind.
- 2 relating to disorders or illnesses of the mind.
■ informal mad; crazy.
– derivatives
mentally adverb.
mentally adverb.
– origin ME: from late L. mentalis, from L. mens, ment- ‘mind’.
usage: The use of mental in compounds such as mental hospital was the normal accepted term in the first half of the 20th century. It is now, however, regarded as old-fashioned, sometimes even offensive, and has been largely replaced by psychiatric.
'mental' also found in these Oxford entries:
aberration
- accidie
- actus reus
- affection
- agonize
- agony
- all
- Alzheimer's disease
- amentia
- Angelman syndrome
- anguish
- anthroposophy
- archetype
- attention
- attitude
- autism
- balance
- bale
- be
- bipolar disorder
- brainwork
- breakdown
- bump
- burnout
- cabbage
- catatonia
- cathexis
- character
- clinical psychology
- cognition
- cognitive science
- committee
- complex
- composition
- concept
- conceptual
- constitutional
- conversion
- coprolalia
- cruelty
- defence mechanism
- dementia
- depression
- depth psychology
- Dianetics
- diminished responsibility
- disability
- disabled
- discipline
- disorder
