Mindframe

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A mental attitude; a mindset; a frame of mind.

    "They, or at least many of them, for there are dissident voices here which speak another message, are also trapped in a nineteenth century mindframe which assumes the centralised nation state structures can somehow be controlled[.]"

Example

More examples

"Fadil had the same mindframe at that time as Dania."

Etymology

From mind + frame; based on earlier frame of mind (17th century).

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