Use of mentality in a sentence

Hi Anon,

No, that doesn't work.

Do you mean "I question just how smart you are?" (Not that you want to use those exact words?)

"I question your mental state"

"His/her mentality is in question"

I don't believe you can add words such as level after words ending with (i)ty.

I'm sure someone can expand on this...

AnonymousI don't believe you can add words such as level after words ending with (i)ty.

I think that statement is much too broad. It does work in some cases. For example, rather than saying something such as "level of profitability" or "level of maturity", I'm sure you'll also hear people say "profitability level" or "maturity level".

Dear friend,

while there exists such a word combination (ie, mentality level), its use is extremely rare - once in 400 million words, as shown by the Corpus of Contemporary American English, at least. In your example, the word mentality most probably implies the capacity for intelligent thought, but Oxford Dictionary reveals that this meaning of the word is obsole