Doublethink

Quick meaning: Doublethink is a noun meaning (intransitive) To engage in doublethink.

Meaning

(intransitive) To engage in doublethink.

More Meanings

1. 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 same sort of doublethink is evident in the White House’s treatment of firsthand impeachment witnesses.

The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?

Any effort by the United States to halt these creeping advances of Communist imperialism became, by the same mad process of double-think, the only kind of "intervention" there ever could be.

... but, as they believed they had other reasons for supporting the invasion – be they moral, monetary or something else entirely – they doublethunk (or doublethought) it and endorsed the 'evidence' despite its lack of merit.

Word Forms

• doublethinks
• doublethinking
• doublethought

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include doublethought, contradictionism, dialethism, paradox, dialetheia, intercontradiction.

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