See mental gymnastics in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "p"
},
"expansion": "mental gymnastics pl (plural only)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "77 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "71 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English pluralia tantum",
"parents": [
"Pluralia tantum",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "65 35",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "76 24",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "77 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "65 35",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "To cope with these mental gymnastics we apply various ways of simplifying and reducing the information.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Difficult and complex logical thought processes, especially when performed effortlessly."
],
"id": "en-mental_gymnastics-en-noun-98o5wm8T",
"links": [
[
"complex",
"complex"
],
[
"logical",
"logical"
]
],
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"word": "mentastics"
}
],
"tags": [
"plural",
"plural-only"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "92 8",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "difficult and complex logical thought processes",
"word": "hjärngymnastik"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "People often perform mental gymnastics in order to blame anyone but themselves.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Inventive, complex arguments used to justify what is otherwise unjustifiable."
],
"id": "en-mental_gymnastics-en-noun-t6ece-sF",
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"complex",
"complex"
],
[
"arguments",
"arguments"
],
[
"justify",
"justify"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(derogatory) Inventive, complex arguments used to justify what is otherwise unjustifiable."
],
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"plural",
"plural-only"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-mental gymnastics.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/88/En-au-mental_gymnastics.ogg/En-au-mental_gymnastics.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/En-au-mental_gymnastics.ogg"
}
],
"word": "mental gymnastics"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English pluralia tantum",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Swedish translations"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "p"
},
"expansion": "mental gymnastics pl (plural only)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "mentastics"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "To cope with these mental gymnastics we apply various ways of simplifying and reducing the information.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Difficult and complex logical thought processes, especially when performed effortlessly."
],
"links": [
[
"complex",
"complex"
],
[
"logical",
"logical"
]
],
"tags": [
"plural",
"plural-only"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English derogatory terms",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "People often perform mental gymnastics in order to blame anyone but themselves.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Inventive, complex arguments used to justify what is otherwise unjustifiable."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"complex",
"complex"
],
[
"arguments",
"arguments"
],
[
"justify",
"justify"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(derogatory) Inventive, complex arguments used to justify what is otherwise unjustifiable."
],
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"plural",
"plural-only"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-mental gymnastics.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/88/En-au-mental_gymnastics.ogg/En-au-mental_gymnastics.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/En-au-mental_gymnastics.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "difficult and complex logical thought processes",
"word": "hjärngymnastik"
}
],
"word": "mental gymnastics"
}
Download raw JSONL data for mental gymnastics meaning in English (1.9kB)
{
"called_from": "form_description/20250107",
"msg": "Form tags without form: desc='plural plural-only', tagsets=[('plural', 'plural-only')]",
"path": [
"mental gymnastics"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "mental gymnastics",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.