Other forms: attitudes
Your attitude is your settled way of thinking and feeling about something. A positive attitude, her attitude to work, change your attitude.
The preposition varies and all three are used: attitude to, attitude towards, attitude about. Used with no object at all, attitude means a defiant or difficult manner — he has an attitude, don't give me attitude — and that use is informal and always critical. In aviation, attitude is the technical term for an aircraft's orientation relative to the horizon, which is a completely separate meaning and matters a great deal in a cockpit.
1nounattitudeA settled way of thinking and feeling about something.
“Her attitude to the whole thing changed in a week.”
2noundefiantA defiant or uncooperative manner.
“He turned up with an attitude and left with one.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
attitude is a way of thinking.
Italian attitudine meant aptness or disposition, from Latin aptus, fitted — the same root as apt and adapt. An attitude was originally the posture a figure was fitted into in a painting, and the mental sense grew from the physical one.
Latin
aptō
Medieval Latin
aptitūdō — aptitude
Italian
attitudine — attitude, aptness
French
attitude
English, today
attitude
Built from
From French attitude, from Italian attitudine (“attitude, aptness”), from Medieval Latin aptitūdō (“aptitude”) and actitūdō (“acting, posture”), from Latin aptō and actitō. a doublet of aptitude.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA