Wrongthink
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Beliefs or opinions that run contrary to the prevailing or mainstream orthodoxy. uncountable, usually
"In other words I spent yesterday in bed with a headache not merely because of my bad attitudes, unpleasant tempers and wrongthink, but because both my grandmothers had migraine, my father has migraine and my mother has migraine."
- 1 To engage in wrongthink. intransitive, rare
"Post a conservative story on Facebook or search for it on Google and out pops Snopes, a partisan site, to warn you of wrongthinking."
Example
More examples"In other words I spent yesterday in bed with a headache not merely because of my bad attitudes, unpleasant tempers and wrongthink, but because both my grandmothers had migraine, my father has migraine and my mother has migraine."
Etymology
Compound of wrong + think, probably modelled on earlier crimethink from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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