mental accounting
C2CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The habit of treating money differently depending on its source or intended use rather than as fungible.
Mental accounting lets people splurge a tax rebate while refusing to touch their salary for the same purchase.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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