Postjudice

//ˈpəʊstdʒʊdɪs// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An opinion or bias acquired after the fact, or after a given event.

    "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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From post- + (pre)judice.

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