doublethink

Noun

Meaning

believing two contradictory ideas at the same time

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Synonyms

ambiguity polarity pairing conjugation duality dualism duplication irony dichotomy twinning bifurcation duplicity ambivalence doubling halving

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Antonyms

same standard success understanding accuracy confidence

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Hypernyms

believing

Examples

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. George Orwell

For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth. Source: Internet

If one thought about the disruption and relative impoverishment that crashout Leave entails one just wouldn’t to it—so such a thought must be naughted aborning, in a spectacular doublethink denial modality. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

doubletalker doubletap doubleted doublethreaded doubletime doubletness