 ##  [Mentalité](/index.php/mentalite) 

  ##  [Mentalité](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/mentalite-0) 

  
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**Humanities &amp; Arts Dictionary**

 
Definition

A historically situated, collective set of cognitive frameworks, values, assumptions and habitual perceptions that shapes how a society or social group understands experience, interprets signs, and considers what is normal or possible at a given time.