1. Position of the body and limbs. 2. Manner of acting. 3. In social or clinical psychology, a relatively stable and enduring predisposition or set to behave or react in a certain way toward persons, objects, institutions, or issues. [Mediev. L. aptitudo, fr. L. aptus, fit]
- emotional attitudes SYN: passional attitudes.
- passional attitudes attitudes expressive of any of the great passions; e.g., anger, lust. SYN: emotional attitudes.
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1) the arrangement of the parts of the body: POSTURE
2 a) a mental position with regard to a fact or state
b) a feeling or emotion toward a fact or state
3) an organismic state of readiness to respond in a characteristic way to a stimulus (as an object, concept, or situation)
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at·ti·tude (atґĭ-t
d) [L. attitudo posture] 1. habitus; the term is particularly used in obstetrics to refer to the relation of the parts of the fetal body to one another, with the normal attitude being one of moderate flexion of all the joints, back curved forward, head slightly bent on chest, and all four limbs free to move in all natural directions. 2. a tendency to respond positively or negatively to other individuals, institutions, or programs of activity.
Medical dictionary. 2011.