Mindset vs Characteristic - What's the difference?
mindset | characteristic |
A way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one.
Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
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, title= a distinguishable feature of a person or thing
(mathematics) the integer part of a logarithm
(nautical) the distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc)
(algebra, field theory) The minimum number of times that the unit of a field must be added unto itself in order to yield that field's zero, or, if that minimum natural number does not exist, then (the integer) zero.
As nouns the difference between mindset and characteristic
is that mindset is a way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one while characteristic is a distinguishable feature of a person or thing.As an adjective characteristic is
being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.mindset
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Noun
(s)- Earth Day is a way of propagating and celebrating the environmentalist mindset .
Synonyms
* mentalitycharacteristic
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(wikipedia characteristic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
Synonyms
* distinctive * exclusive * idiosyncratic * indicative * representative * signature * specific * typicalAntonyms
* uncharacteristic * untypicalDerived terms
* characteristic function * characteristicnessNoun
(en noun)- A field's characteristic, if non-zero, must be a prime number.