"mentalize" meaning in English

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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "mentalization"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "submentalize"
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  "etymology_text": "mental + -ize",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "mentalizes",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "mentalizing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "mentalized",
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "mentalized",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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        {
          "ref": "1899, Henry Theophilus Finck, Primitive Love and Love-Stories",
          "text": "It is interesting to observe, furthermore, that among the higher barbarians and civilized races, lust has become to a certain extent mentalized through hereditary memory and association.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Robert Sterling Yard, The Book of the National Parks",
          "text": "During this time also life evolved from its inferred beginnings in the late Archean to the complicated, finely developed, and in man's case highly mentalized and spiritualized organization of To-day.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make mental in nature, rather than physical"
      ],
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        "(usually in passive) To make mental in nature, rather than physical"
      ],
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        "passive",
        "regional"
      ]
    },
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          "name": "Psychology",
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            "Social sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
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            "Fundamental"
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        {
          "ref": "1999 November 26, Chris D. Frith, Uta Frith, “Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis”, in Science, volume 286, number 5445, →DOI, pages 1692–1695",
          "text": "Specific impairments of mentalizing in both developmental and acquired disorders suggest that this ability depends on a dedicated and circumscribed brain system.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 November 26, Chris D. Frith, Uta Frith, “Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis”, in Science, volume 286, number 5445, →DOI, pages 1692–1695",
          "text": "Next Review Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis Chris D. Frith, 1 * Uta Frith 2 The ability to \"mentalize,\" that is to understand and manipulate other people's behavior in terms of their mental states, is a major ingredient in successful social interactions.",
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        "To understand the behavior of others as a product of their mental state"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(psychology) To understand the behavior of others as a product of their mental state"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "psychology",
        "sciences"
      ]
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "mentalise"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mentalize"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "mentalization"
    },
    {
      "word": "submentalize"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "mental + -ize",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1899, Henry Theophilus Finck, Primitive Love and Love-Stories",
          "text": "It is interesting to observe, furthermore, that among the higher barbarians and civilized races, lust has become to a certain extent mentalized through hereditary memory and association.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Robert Sterling Yard, The Book of the National Parks",
          "text": "During this time also life evolved from its inferred beginnings in the late Archean to the complicated, finely developed, and in man's case highly mentalized and spiritualized organization of To-day.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make mental in nature, rather than physical"
      ],
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        "(usually in passive) To make mental in nature, rather than physical"
      ],
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        "en:Psychology"
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          "text": "Specific impairments of mentalizing in both developmental and acquired disorders suggest that this ability depends on a dedicated and circumscribed brain system.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1999 November 26, Chris D. Frith, Uta Frith, “Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis”, in Science, volume 286, number 5445, →DOI, pages 1692–1695",
          "text": "Next Review Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis Chris D. Frith, 1 * Uta Frith 2 The ability to \"mentalize,\" that is to understand and manipulate other people's behavior in terms of their mental states, is a major ingredient in successful social interactions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To understand the behavior of others as a product of their mental state"
      ],
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        "(psychology) To understand the behavior of others as a product of their mental state"
      ],
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      "word": "mentalise"
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  "word": "mentalize"
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