enviándola una oleada de calor mental - What is the English translation? English translators help general English translators with the translation of enviándola una oleada de calor mental

Conges terminology question

9 months ago

Barbara R. Cochran, MFA asked this question:

Language pair:	Spanish > English
Subject:	General
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	enviándola una oleada de calor mental
Context:	Se inclinó hacia ella enviándola una oleada de calor mental para que sintiera de lo que estaba hablando. This guy has just explained to the young woman who is sharing a meal with him how he and other unconventional guys like him like to have sex/be gratified.

The answer of exegete was rated best

causing her to feel an inner wave of mental warmth

My comment:

"He leaned toward her causing her to feel an inner wave of mental warmth so she could feel what he was talking about."

My references:

ola de calor = heat wave
https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=ola%20de%20calor

I understand it as: he tries to make her feel mentally what should be felt physically. So, "causing her to feel".

I wouldn't translate "mental" by "psychological", all the more that "psicológico" exists in Spanish, so the author would have written "una oleada de calor psicológico".

I.e., she feels hot, through a mental process, and not through a physical process.

It is "mental" as opposed to "physical", I believe - at least the process used to make her feel.