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"mental" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often cognitive (9 letters).
Definitions
affected by a disorder of the mind
Word origin
Borrowing from Middle French mental, from Late Latin mentālis, from mēns (“mind, disposition; heart, soul”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Used in a sentence
“mental science”
“mental acuity”
“the distinction between physical things and mental ideas”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Related to the mind”6 letters
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