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Definition: State Of Mind |
State Of MindNoun1. A temporary psychological state. 2. The state of a person's cognitive processes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Of the disabled. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: State Of MindSynonyms: cognitive state (n), frame of mind (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: State Of Mind |
| English words defined with "state of mind": act, act as ♦ case ♦ dream ♦ good humor, grave accent ♦ ivory tower ♦ lucidity ♦ play ♦ Spright, subconsciousness ♦ To be in alt, trance. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "state of mind": Comfort, Coxcomb ♦ fizzoed ♦ IMPENITENCE ♦ psychoneuroimmunology ♦ righteousness ♦ WORRY. (references) |
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Screenplays | Sharpness is a state of mind. (Wo hu cang long; writing credit: Hui-Ling Wang) Life is a state of mind. (Being There; writing credit: Jerzy Kosinski) Insanity is just a state of mind (M*A*S*H; writing credit: Larry Gelbart) More of a state of mind than an actual person. (The Santa Clause; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick) | |
Lyrics | So Cal is where my mind states but it's not my state of mind (Inside Out; performing artist: Eve 6) Loves a state of mind (Rhiannon; performing artist: FLEETWOOD MAC) A child was born, with no state of mind ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash) I get it down, get it krunk when I get in the state of mind (Guilty Until Proven Innocent; performing artist: Jay-Z) It's all a state of mind (Barenaked; performing artist: Jennifer Love Hewit) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Inside New Zealand: State of Mind (2000) Another State of Mind (1984) | |
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Aristotle | Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. |
Benedict Spinoza | Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. |
Plutarch | In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Not he is great who can alter matter but he who can alter my state of mind. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | I think it is the state of mind which gives most spirit and delight. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | As she still hesitated, being, in fact, in no reasonable state of mind, he took the infant in his arms, and himself administered the draught. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries, but it appears to have been imperfectly expounded. An example of this faulty exposition is found in the only extant sermon of the pious Bishop Rowley, a characteristic passage from which is here given: "Now righteousness consisteth not merely in a holy state of mind, nor yet in performance of religious rites and obedience to the letter of the law. It is not enough that one be pious and just: one must see to it that others also are in the same state; and to this end compulsion is a proper means. Forasmuch as my injustice may work ill to another, so by his injustice may evil be wrought upon still another, the which it is as manifestly my duty to estop as to forestall mine own tort. Wherefore if I would be righteous I am bound to restrain my neighbor, by force if needful, in all those injurious enterprises from which, through a better disposition and by the help of Heaven, I do myself restrain." |
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Expression using "state of mind": be unsettled in a state of mind. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lone star state of mind | 43 |
a state of mind | 32 |
new york state of mind | 27 |
another state of mind | 8 |
lone star state of mind movie | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "state of mind"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjendje shpirtërore (fig, frame of mind, habitude, humor, humour, mood, spirit, spiritual state, temper, vein). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مزاج (cast of mind, complexion, constitution, disposition, feather, figure, frame, frame of mind, framing, grain, humor, humour, kidney, mettle, mind, mood, nature, spirits, temper, temperament, tone, vein). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | душевно състояние (mentation, spirit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mielentila. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | moral, état psychique, état d'esprit, état d'âme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stimmungslage, verfassung (constitution, fettle, frame, state, state of health, trim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψυχική κατάσταση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "לך רוח (mood, temper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lelkiállapot (affection, heart, mood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 精神状態 (mental condition, mentality), 心理状態 (mental state), 心柄 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"りじょうたい (mental state), せいし"じょうたい (mental condition, mentality), ""ろがら. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atestay ofay indmay estado de espírito (affection, cheer, feather, mood, morale). (various references) stare de spirit (fig, pulse, temper, tune). (various references) estado mental. (various references) sinnestillstånd. (various references) ruhsal durum (habit of mind, vein), ruh hali (frame of mind, habit of mind, humor, humour, inward, mood, psychology, spirit, temper, tone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sublimitas, sublimitate, sublimitatem. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-i-m-n-o-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: antidotes, dominates, fetations, manifesto, misatoned, stationed. | |
-3 letters: amidones, amniotes, antidote, astonied, atomised, daimones, demonist, demotist, dominate, faintest, fetation, fistnote, fitments, foamiest, instated, manifest, mattoids, mediants, misatone, ofttimes, saintdom, sedation, tetanoid. | |
-4 letters: aftmost, amidone, amniote, amosite, anomies, atomies, atomise, atomist, atonies, attends, daemons, daftest, daimons, defiant, defoams, dentist, destain, detains, diastem, diatoms, distant, distent. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-i-m-n-o-s-t-t" | |
+4 letters: demystification. | |
+5 letters: demystifications. | |
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