mentally
adverb
men·tal·ly
ˈmen-tᵊl-ē 
1
: in the mind
Mentally he promised himself that he would never again use a collar on any living creature.—
Brian Jacques
: using the mind
Brian Jacquesable to mentally calculate large sums
2
: with regard to the mind or its capacity
physically and mentally healthy people
a mentally competent adult
a mentally challenging activity
… if you try to hide the fact that you feel mentally inadequate, and so go around making jokes about your own dullness and acting as if it didn't bother you at all …—David Foster Wallace
David Foster WallaceI felt too hungry and tired and mentally overloaded to ask any more questions.—Rick Riordan
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
This season has tested Porziņģis mentally as well as physically.
—Jay King, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
People seem to mentally conceive of AI as being almost like a friend or peer.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
The story follows orphaned Michelle’s quest (Brown) to find her presumably dead brother Christopher (Woody Norman), who is mentally controlling a limited-vocabulary robot named Cosmo (Alan Tudyk).
—Skyler Trepel, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
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“Mentally.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mentally. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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