state of mind
/ˈsteɪt əv ˈmɑɪnd/ n [C]Definition
› a person's mood and the effect that mood has on the person’s thinking and behavior: I was not in the right state of mind to laugh at his jokes.
(Definition of state of mind n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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