"mentalist" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-au-mentalist.ogg [Australia] Forms: more mentalist [comparative], most mentalist [superlative]
Etymology: mental + -ist Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|mental|ist}} mental + -ist Head templates: {{en-adj}} mentalist (comparative more mentalist, superlative most mentalist)
  1. Of or relating to mentalism
    Sense id: en-mentalist-en-adj-0P9SQ7xV

Noun

Audio: En-au-mentalist.ogg [Australia] Forms: mentalists [plural]
Etymology: mental + -ist Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|mental|ist}} mental + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} mentalist (plural mentalists)
  1. A practitioner of mentalism. Categories (topical): People Translations (practitioner of mentalism): mentalista [masculine] (Czech), tankeläsare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-mentalist-en-noun-y7BHBu4B Disambiguation of People: 33 59 8 Disambiguation of 'practitioner of mentalism': 94 6
  2. (UK, slang) An insane person. Tags: UK, slang Categories (topical): Occupations
    Sense id: en-mentalist-en-noun-8Xfnl6ma Disambiguation of Occupations: 13 27 60 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ist Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 4 92 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 2 2 96 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ist: 2 7 91

Inflected forms

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