DOUBLETHINK meaning: Holding contradictory beliefs simultaneously, unquestioningly

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doublethink: Merriam-Webster
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doublethink: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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doublethink: Dictionary.com
DoubleThink(album), DoubleThink, Doublethink: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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doublethink: Mnemonic Dictionary
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doublethink: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ 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.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To engage in doublethink.

Opposite:

clarity, honesty, truthfulness, sincerity

Types:

dissonance, self-deception, displacement, denial, repression, projection, more...

Adjectives:

orwellian, such, american, more, political, theological, bipolar, fourth, pure, soviet, typical

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