mentalismo

Portuguese

Etymology

From mental +‎ -ismo.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mẽ.taˈliz.mu/

• (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)

1. mentalism
   1. (occultism) alleged power to read or control the minds of others
   2. (philosophy) doctrine that reality is the spirit, not the material world
   3. (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, 2003–2024
• “mentalismo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mentaˈlismo/ [mẽn̪.t̪aˈliz.mo]
• Rhymes: -ismo
• Syllabification: men‧ta‧lis‧mo

Noun

mentalismo m (plural mentalismos)

1. mentalism

Related terms

• mentalista

 

Further reading

• “mentalismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16