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STATE OF MIND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of a person's cognitive processes
Synonyms:
cognitive state; state of mind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("state of mind" is a kind of...):
mental condition; mental state; psychological condition; psychological state ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state of mind"):
outwardness (concern with outward things or material objects as opposed to the mind and spirit)
inwardness (preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values)
absorption; engrossment; preoccupancy; preoccupation (the mental state of being preoccupied by something)
morbidity; morbidness (an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind)
doubt; doubtfulness; dubiety; dubiousness; incertitude; uncertainty (the state of being unsure of something)
certainty (the state of being certain)
confusedness; confusion; disarray; mental confusion; muddiness (a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior)
curiosity; wonder (a state in which you want to learn more about something)
subconsciousness (a state of mind not immediately available to consciousness)
unconsciousness (a state lacking normal awareness of the self or environment)
consciousness (an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation)
ivory tower (a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place)
readiness; set ((psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way)
paramnesia ((psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality)
amnesia; blackout; memory loss (partial or total loss of memory)
interestedness (the state of being interested)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A temporary psychological state
Synonyms:
frame of mind; state of mind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("state of mind" is a kind of...):
temporary state (a state that continues for a limited time)
mental condition; mental state; psychological condition; psychological state ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state of mind"):
case (a specific state of mind that is temporary)
thinking cap (a state in which one thinks)
Context examples:
Mary was in a state of mind to rejoice in a connexion with the Bertram family, and to be not displeased with her brother's marrying a little beneath him.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Anne could perfectly comprehend the exquisite relief, and was only the more inclined to wonder at the composure of her friend's usual state of mind.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Street after street and all the folks asleep—street after street, all lighted up as if for a procession and all as empty as a church—till at last I got into that state of mind when a man listens and listens and begins to long for the sight of a policeman.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But these objections had all, with that happy ardour of youth which Marianne and her mother equally shared, been overcome or overlooked; and Elinor, in spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby's constancy, could not witness the rapture of delightful expectation which filled the whole soul and beamed in the eyes of Marianne, without feeling how blank was her own prospect, how cheerless her own state of mind in the comparison, and how gladly she would engage in the solicitude of Marianne's situation to have the same animating object in view, the same possibility of hope.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Catherine was saved the embarrassment of attempting an answer by the entrance of the general, whose smiling compliments announced a happy state of mind, but whose gentle hint of sympathetic early rising did not advance her composure.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I did not know what to do, for, as an English Churchman, I have been taught to regard such things as in some measure idolatrous, and yet it seemed so ungracious to refuse an old lady meaning so well and in such a state of mind.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
In this perturbed state of mind, with thoughts that could rest on nothing, she walked on; but it would not do; in half a minute the letter was unfolded again, and collecting herself as well as she could, she again began the mortifying perusal of all that related to Wickham, and commanded herself so far as to examine the meaning of every sentence.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I asked him what he thought Ham's state of mind was, in reference to the cause of their misfortunes?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This state of mind preyed upon my health, which had perhaps never entirely recovered from the first shock it had sustained.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He was in a great state of mind at that, and mounting the colt, who stood by him through thick and thin, rushed to the castle to see which was left.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
