mentalismo
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /mẽ.taˈliz.mu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /mẽ.taˈliʒ.mu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /mẽ.taˈliz.mo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mẽ.tɐˈliʒ.mu/
- Rhymes: -iʒmu, -izmu
- Hyphenation: men‧ta‧lis‧mo
Noun
mentalismo m (plural mentalismos)
- mentalism
- (occultism) alleged power to read or control the minds of others
- (philosophy) doctrine that reality is the spirit, not the material world
- (psychology) doctrine according to which, in addition to physical and physiological phenomena, there are also spiritual or mental phenomena that can be studied through introspection
Further reading
- “mentalismo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “mentalismo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mentaˈlismo/ [mẽn̪.t̪aˈliz.mo]
- Rhymes: -ismo
- Syllabification: men‧ta‧lis‧mo
Noun
mentalismo m (plural mentalismos)
Related terms
Further reading
- “mentalismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024