mindframe

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English

Etymology

From mind +‎ frame; based on earlier frame of mind (17th century).

Noun

mindframe (plural mindframes)

  1. A mental attitude; a mindset; a frame of mind.
    • 1995, John Papworth, Small is Powerful: The Future as If People Really Mattered, page 105:
      They, or at least many of them, for there are dissident voices here which speak another message, are also trapped in a nineteenth century mindframe which assumes the centralised nation state structures can somehow be controlled[.]
    • 1996 March 1, The Australian Jewish News, Melbourne, page 33, column 1:
      A young Australian Jew engaged on the trip of a lifetime finally arrives in the homeland of his people. His mindframe reflects a half finished puzzle but his external facade exudes excitement and jubilation.
    • 2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71:
      Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.