Counterthought

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A thought that counters or opposes another thought.

    "His thoughts and their counterthoughts are bent and curled, snail-like, inside the whorls of fiction."

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"His thoughts and their counterthoughts are bent and curled, snail-like, inside the whorls of fiction."

Etymology

From counter- + thought.

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