mind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mīnd
ipa: /maɪnd/
homophone: mined
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: minds
Etymology: From Middle English minde, münde, ȝemünde, from Old English ġemynd (“memory”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundi, *gamundi, from Proto-Germanic *mundiz, *gamundiz (“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”) (compare also mantis, via Greek), from the root *men- (“to think”).
Cognate with Old High German gimunt (“mind, memory”), Danish minde (“memory”), Swedish minne (“memory”), Icelandic minni (“memory, recall, recollection”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (munds, “memory, mind”), Latin mēns (“mind, reason”), Sanskrit मनस् (mánas), Ancient Greek μένος (ménos), Albanian mënd (“mind, reason”). Doublet of mantra. Related to Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”). More at mint.
Senses: examples: text: Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.
text: And ſure, although it was invented to eaſe his mynde of griefe, there be a number of caveats therein to forewarne other young gentlemen to foreſtand with good government their folowing yl fortunes; […]
ref: 1576, George Whetstone, “The Ortchard of Repentance: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, →OCLC; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, […] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, [1867?], →OCLC, page 291:
text: “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The capability for rational thought.
examples: text: There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.
glosses: The ability to be aware of things.
examples: text: My mind just went blank.
glosses: The ability to remember things.
examples: text: I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing.
glosses: The ability to focus the thoughts.
examples: text: He was one of history’s greatest minds.
text: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, […]
ref: 1956, Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”, in Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series), City Lights Books, →OCLC, page 9:
text: That's far from the promised land set out in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, that the railways would have a guiding mind that would be in control of the industry's finances. Businesses have what is called a profit and loss account, showing both revenue and costs, but the current situation means that the two sides of the system are in different hands - and neither is (as yet) in the hands of a 'guiding mind'.
ref: 2022 November 16, Christian Wolmar, “Can Merriman use his rail knowledge to make a difference?”, in RAIL, number 970, page 45:
glosses: Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
examples: text: He changed his mind after hearing the speech.
glosses: Judgment, opinion, or view.
examples: text: She had a mind to go to Paris.
text: I have half a mind to do it myself.
text: I am of a mind to listen.
text: I fortuned to come in,
Thys rebell to behold,
Whereof I hym controld;
But he sayde that he wolde
Agaynst my mynde and wyll
In my church hawke styll.
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 64, lines 94–99:
text: Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction […] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article […]
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
glosses: Desire, inclination, or intention.
examples: text: I, ______ being of sound mind and body, do hereby[…]
text: You are losing your mind.
glosses: A healthy mental state.
examples: text: The nature of the mind is a major topic in philosophy.
text: Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
ref: 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations:
text: The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.
ref: 1854, Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts, page 19:
text: Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff.
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
text: […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
examples: text: a month's [or monthly] mind; a year's mind
glosses: Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
examples: text: They are the “tars” who give mind to the spreading sail, and their bold courage is the pabulum which will preserve our sea-girt isle in its vernal green to furthest posterity.
ref: 1849, Eliza Cook, Eliza Cook’s Journal,p.119, volume 1:
text: Then he, having mind of Beelzebub, the god of flies, fled without a halt homewards; but, falling in the coo's loan, broke two ribs and a collar bone, the whilk misfortune was much blessed to his soul.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: If you get a “trolling” comment, delete it, do not respond to it, and move forward immediately without paying any further mind.
ref: 2014, Jolie O'Dell, Blogging for Photographers, page 66:
glosses: Attention, consideration or thought.
Synonyms: sense: ability for rational thought
word: brain(s)
word: head
word: intellect
word: intelligence
word: nous
word: psyche
word: reason
word: wit
sense: ability to be aware of things
word: awareness
word: consciousness
word: sentience
sense: ability to remember things
word: memory
word: recollection
sense: ability to focus the thoughts
word: attention
sense: ability to focus the thoughts
word: concentration
sense: ability to focus the thoughts
word: focus
sense: somebody that embodies certain mental qualities
word: genius
word: intellectual
word: thinker
sense: judgment, opinion, or view
word: judgment
word: judgement
word: idea
word: opinion
word: view
sense: desire, inclination, or intention
word: desire
word: disposition
word: inclination
word: intention
word: mood
sense: healthy mental state
word: sanity
sense: process of
word: cognition
sense: process of
word: learning
Derived terms: absence of mind
absent-minded
a contented mind is a perpetual feast
aftermind
a healthy body is a healthy mind
amind
a mind is a terrible thing to waste
back of one's mind
badmind
bad mind
bear in mind
bemind
beminded
be of one mind
bicameral mind
big mind
blow someone's mind
bodymind
bored out of one's mind
breadth of mind
bring to mind
call to mind
cast one's mind back
change of mind
change one's mind
change someone's mind
childmind
closed-mindedly
close-mindedly
close one's mind
come to mind
cross someone's mind
cybermind
digital mind
dirty mind
double-minded
ease one's mind
enmind
foremind
frame of mind
front of mind
get one's mind out of the gutter
give someone a piece of one's mind
good-minded
great minds think alike
groupmind
habit of mind
half a mind
have a good mind to
have a mind like a sieve
have a mind of one's own
have a mind to
have in mind
have one's mind about one
hivemind
hive mind
in mind
in one's right mind
in two minds
Jedi mind trick
keep in mind
know one's mind
know one's own mind
lack-mind
leap to mind
legend in one's own mind
like-minded
live rent-free in someone's mind
lose one's mind
make up one's mind
mastermind
meeting of the minds
megamind
mind-altering
mindbender
mind-bending
mind bleach
mindblindness
mindblow
mindblower
mind-blowing
mindblown
mind-body
mind-boggler
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mindbogglingly
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mind break
mind candy
mind-control
mind control
mind cure
minder
mind eraser
mind-expanding
mindfile
mindflow
mindframe
mind-frying
mindfuckery
mind-fuckery
mindfuck
mind fuck
mindful
mind game
mindgasm
mind-healing
mindhood
mindism
mindist
mindless
mindlike
mind like a sieve
mind like a steel trap
mindlock
mindly
mind map
mind mapper
mind-meld
mind meld
mind-muscle connection
mind-numbing
mind over matter
mind palace
mindpower
mindquake
mind rape
mind-reader
mind reader
mind-reading
mind reading
mindread
mind-read
mind rhyme
mindscape
mindscrew
mind's ear
mind-searching
mindset
mind's eye
mindshare
mind share
mindsight
mindstate
mindstep
mindstream
mindstyle
mindswap
mindswapping
mindtool
mindware
mind-warping
mindwash
mindwipe
month mind
month's mind
nethermind
not pay any mind
of a mind
off-minded
of one mind
of sound mind
of two minds
one-track mind
one track mind
on one's mind
on someone's mind
open mind
open one's mind
out of one's cotton-picking mind
out of one's mind
out of sight is out of mind
out of sight, out of mind
out one's mind
overmind
pay no mind
peace of mind
philosophy of mind
presence of mind
put in mind
put one's mind to it
put out of one's mind
put someone in mind of
reactive mind
read someone's mind
right-minded
same-minded
scare someone out of their mind
slip someone's mind
speak one's mind
spring to mind
state of mind
submind
supermind
the mind boggles
theory of mind
time out of mind
times out of mind
to one's mind
top-of-mind awareness
top of mind awareness
top-of-mind
top of mind
turn of mind
twelvemonth mind
twelvemonth's mind
undermind
universal mind
ur-mind
weight off someone's mind
what's on your mind
woke mind virus
wrap one's mind around
year mind
year's mind