Mind

Word MIND
Character 4
Hyphenation mind
Pronunciations /maɪnd/

Definitions and meanings of "Mind"

What do we mean by mind?

The part or faculty of a person by which one feels, perceives, thinks, remembers, desires, and imagines. noun

A person of great mental ability. noun

Individual consciousness, memory, or recollection. noun

A person or group that embodies certain mental qualities. noun

The thought processes characteristic of a person or group; psychological makeup. noun

Opinion or sentiment. noun

Desire or inclination. noun

Focus of thought; attention. noun

A healthy mental state; sanity. noun

To pay attention to. intransitive verb

To be careful about. intransitive verb

To heed in order to obey. intransitive verb

To take care or charge of; look after: synonym: tend. intransitive verb

To be concerned or annoyed by; care. intransitive verb

To object to; dislike. intransitive verb

To bring (an object or idea) to mind; remember. intransitive verb

The ability for rational thought.

The ability to be aware of things.

The ability to remember things.

The ability to focus the thoughts.

Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.

Judgment, opinion, or view.

Desire, inclination, or intention.

A healthy mental state.

The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.

Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Mind

The word "mind" in example sentences

The real and practical alliance between the physical and the psychic -- between body and mind -- is better realized; as for instance: You may be seized with _an idea_, or a passion, and it disturbs your _health of body_; you may take indigestible food, or suffer injury or fatigue, and it disturbs your _health of mind_. ❋ Louis Dechmann (N/A)

Likewise if anything happens to a particular set of muscles, the reaction is instantly transmitted to its associated mind center through the "direct wire" nerves and brain center which particularly serve that part of the mind_. ❋ Norval A. Hawkins (N/A)

_Mental_ resistance can be met and overcome by _ideas_, by points introduced by _your_ mind into the _mind_ of the _other_ man. ❋ Norval A. Hawkins (N/A)

The attraction of mechanical power had already wrenched the American mind into a crab-like process which Roosevelt was making heroic efforts to restore to even action, and he had every right to active support and sympathy from all the world, especially from the Trusts themselves so far as they were human; but the doubt persisted whether the force that educated was really man or nature, —mind or motion. ❋ Unknown (1918)

What General Meade wrote in May, “We must expect disaster so long as the armies are not under one master mind, ”32 Lincoln knew perfectly well, and gladly would he have devolved the military conduct of affairs on one man could he have found that “master mind” for whom he made a painful quest during almost two years. ❋ Unknown (1917)

To meet the demand for a final and standard truth, a demand which realism meets with its doctrine of a being independent of any mind, this philosophy defines a _standard mind_. ❋ Ralph Barton Perry (1916)

And, of course, a man _must_ sometimes change both his clothes and his mind -- his _mind_ at any rate. ❋ Frank Boreham (1915)

Science itself very likely establishes a presumption in favor of a governing mind, _but the deeper question is as to the character of that mind_. ❋ Francis John McConnell (1912)

But the idea must be constantly in the mind of the mother that her boy needs to _see_ the spoken word at the very moment _when the idea that it represents is in his mind_, AS OFTEN as he would hear it if his hearing were perfect. ❋ John Dutton Wright (1909)

Columbus discovered America some four hundred years ago, that your house is of a white color, that it rained a week ago today, exists as a fact regardless of whether your minds think of these things at all, yet the truth remains as before: for the particular mind which remembers these things, _the facts did not exist while they were out of the mind_. ❋ George Herbert Betts (1901)

Fully admitting that it does not account for Mind (in the abstract) to refer one mind to a prior mind for its origin; yet my hypothesis, if admitted, _does_ account for the fact that _my mind_ exists; and this is all that my hypothesis is intended to cover. ❋ George John Romanes (1871)

This lower, misnamed mind is a false claim, a suppositional mind, which I prefer to call _mortal mind_. ❋ Mary Baker Eddy (1865)

At best, matter is only a phenomenon of mortal mind, of which evil is the highest degree; but really there is no such thing as _mortal mind_, -- though we are compelled to use the phrase in the endeavor to express the underlying thought. ❋ Mary Baker Eddy (1865)

A solicitor, after hearing Lord Westbury's opinion, ventured to say that he had turned the matter over in his mind, and thought that something might be said on the other side; to which he replied, "Then, sir, you will turn it over once more in what you are _pleased to call your mind_." ❋ John Bartlett (1862)

The world is no longer to be governed by physical force, but by the influence which mind exerts over mind… ❋ Unknown (1849)

The only term which we can give to this ` desideratum is 'presence of mind -- not the presence of mind required in danger, but that presence of _mind_ which enables him, when a proposition is made, at once to seize all its bearings, the direction to which it tends, and the ultimate object (for that will always be concealed at first) which the proposer may have in view. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

Retrace, then, dear Julia, in your mind the course of your thoughts for some time past; discover the cause of this revolution in your opinions; judge yourself; and remember, that in the _mind_ as well as in the body, the highest pitch of disease is often attended with an unconsciousness of its existence. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

114: 12 Mortal mind is a solecism in language, and involves an improper use of the word _mind_. ❋ Mary Baker Eddy (1865)

"I wasn't going to let him sign them, but he took the wind out of my sails by stating beforehand that he didn't want to -- that if I didn't mind -- _mind_, if you please -- he'd very much rather not. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)

Every tune lies within their compass; and their mind (for they still call it _mind_) is ready as a hurdy-gurdy on turning of the handle: "My Lords, this question now before the ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

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