Postjudice

Quick meaning: Postjudice is a noun meaning An opinion or bias acquired after the fact, or after a given event.

Meaning

An opinion or bias acquired after the fact, or after a given event.

Example Sentences

There is another prejudice, or post-judice rather, that may have conditioned my choice of heroes and heroines.

Prejudice, in fact, is not so much the great intellectual sin as a thing which we may call, to coin a word, “postjudice,” not the bias before the fair trial, but the bias that remains afterwards.

There is a mixture of good sense and of what, for want of a better name, people call prejudice: but to this mixture we owe our stability. The proper word is postjudice, a clinging to past experience, often longer than is held judicious by after times.

Word Forms

• postjudices

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include preopinion, prejudgment, preconception, prejudice, prepossession, prejudgement.

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