doublethink

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The original name is some impressive marketing doublethink on the part of whoever coined the name, IMO.

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(intransitive) To engage in doublethink.

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verb

(intransitive) To engage in doublethink.

noun

The holding of two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as true or correct, without acknowledging the contradiction.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for doublethink.

verb

(intransitive) To engage in doublethink.

noun

The holding of two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as true or correct, without acknowledging the contradiction.

Example sentences

The original name is some impressive marketing doublethink on the part of whoever coined the name, IMO.

He must be capable of some impressive doublethink if he's not just outright lying to his clients.

Better to avoid the doublethink and stop defining free speech as speech that you approve of.

The doublethink and cognitive dissonance on display here is the end result of that process.

So abortion is logically not murder, and therefore no doublethink is involved.

Leave the doublethink and doublespeak for the politicians, it doesn't belong here.

I think that actually protected him from some of doublethink: he was under no illusions about why he was fighting.

I think doing both at the same time is a sort of essential entrepreneurial doublethink.

Sounds like a bit of doublethink, if you ask me.

Claiming that the Qur'an doesn't encourage violence is just doublethink.

I am glad to see this kind of doublethink addressed directly.

A horrific display of Orwellian doublethink.

Quote examples

I hope anyone who uses terms like "national security" does it in full awareness of what Orwell meant by newspeak and doublethink.

This is not "doublethink", this is just being realistic.

They might actually The amount of doublethink people have here about "bad actors will get pushed out of the market for better ones" while simultaneously defending shitty business practices, or conveniently ignoring that bad actor principle when their oh-so-favorite business gets a slap, is pretty astonishing.