What does anticognitive mean?
Anticognitive means Opposing or counteracting cognition..
Anticognitive
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Meaning
Opposing or counteracting cognition..
Example Sentences
[…]the culture emphasizes anticognitive and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return to instinctual modes.
Many authors – in particular, Meltzer and Bion – have described clinical situations in which the mind, where wholly or relatively incapable of tolerating psychic pain, performs destructive, or anticognitive, operations[…]
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- more anticognitive
- most anticognitive
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[…]the culture emphasizes anticognitive and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return to instinctual modes.
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