Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word MENTAL

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Definitions of MENTAL

1. Of, relating to, or affected by a psychiatric disorder.
2. Of or relating to telepathic or mind-reading powers.
3. (relational) Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
4. (colloquial, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, comparable) Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way.
5. (anatomy, relational) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
6. (biology, relational) Of or relating to the chinlike or liplike structure.
7. (zootomy) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
8. (slang) State of mind; ellipsis of mental state.

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Examples of Using MENTAL in a Sentence

• The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma during the war as well as the detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home from the war.
• Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression or manic depressive disorder, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood that each last from days to weeks.
• It is now known that catatonic symptoms are nonspecific and may be observed in other mental, neurological, and medical conditions.
• Though it was originally designed to treat depression, its uses have been expanded to include many issues and the treatment of many mental health and other conditions, including anxiety, substance use disorders, marital problems, ADHD, and eating disorders.
• Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.
• Congenital iodine deficiency syndrome (CIDS), also called cretinism, is a medical condition present at birth marked by impaired physical and mental development, due to insufficient thyroid hormone production (hypothyroidism) often caused by insufficient dietary iodine during pregnancy.
• Cognitivism (psychology), a psychological approach that argues that mental function can be understood as the internal manipulation of symbols.
• In humans, coprophagia has been described since the late 19th century in individuals with mental illnesses and in some sexual acts, such as the practices of anilingus and felching where sex partners insert their tongue into each other's anus and ingest biologically significant amounts of feces.
• Hume argued that inductive reasoning and belief in causality cannot be justified rationally; instead, they result from custom and mental habit.
• To be recognized at law, the loss must involve damage to property, or mental or physical injury; pure economic loss is rarely recognized for the award of damages.
• Deductive reasoning, the mental process of drawing inferences in which the truth of their premises ensures the truth of their conclusion.
• Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known as clinical depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.
• The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM; latest edition: DSM-5-TR, published in March 2022) is a publication by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the classification of mental disorders using a common language and standard criteria.
• Early researchers tried to establish a link between déjà vu and mental disorders such as anxiety, dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia but failed to find correlations of any diagnostic value.
• It holds that subjective mental events are completely dependent for their existence on corresponding physical and biochemical events within the human body, but do not themselves influence physical events.
• Euphemisms may be used to mask profanity or refer to topics some consider taboo such as mental or physical disability, sexual intercourse, bodily excretions, pain, violence, illness, or death in a polite way.
• His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family.
• The idea of mass extermination with the use of stationary facilities, to which the victims were taken by train, was the result of earlier Nazi experimentation with chemically manufactured poison gas during the secretive Aktion T4 euthanasia programme against hospital patients with mental and physical disabilities.
• Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure.
• In psychology, fantasy is a broad range of mental experiences, mediated by the faculty of imagination in the human brain, and marked by an expression of certain desires through vivid mental imagery.

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