A state of mind is how a person is feeling and thinking at a particular time. The weather inside.
It is used in law and medicine as well as in ordinary speech, since a defendant's state of mind can be the whole question in a trial. The phrase implies something temporary rather than a character trait. There is a well-worn observation that happiness is a state of mind, which is either wisdom or an excuse depending on who is saying it and to whom.
1nounstate of mindA person's mental or emotional condition at a particular time.
“Nobody asked what state of mind he was in that evening.”
Practised in A Man Called Ove, Thinking & Memory
First appears in chapter 15 of A Man Called Ove.
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