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mentalistic

The English word “mentalistic” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Characterized by appeal to mental states (such as beliefs, desires, intentions, feelings) in describing, explaining, or predicting behaviour or other phenomena; employing or pertaining to vocabulary or predicates about such states (often contrasted with behaviorist or purely physicalist approaches).
  2. Of or relating to mentalism or mentalists.

Etymology

From mentalist + -ic.

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