Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Doublethink
Synonyms for "doublethink" (22 found)
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25 translations across 19 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 双重思想 noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
- 雙想 /双想 noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
- 雙重思想 /双重思想 noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Czech
1 entries- dvojité myšlení noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Dutch
1 entries- dubbeldenk noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Esperanto
1 entries- duoblapenso noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
French
1 entries- doublepensée noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Georgian
1 entries- ორაზრი noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
German
1 entries- Doppeldenk noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Hebrew
1 entries- דּוּ חוֹשֵׁב noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Hungarian
2 entries- duplagondol noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
- kettős/kétlaki gondolkodás/gondolkozás noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Italian
2 entries- bipensiero noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
- bispensiero noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Japanese
1 entries- 二重思考 noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Lithuanian
1 entries- dvejamintė noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- dufikrî noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
- duramanî noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Polish
1 entries- dwójmyślenie noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Portuguese
2 entries- duplipensar noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
- duplopensar noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Russian
1 entries- двоемы́слие noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- dvomisao noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Spanish
1 entries- doblepensar noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Swedish
1 entries- dubbeltänk noun (the power of holding two contradictory beliefs)
Sample sentences
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The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?
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Any effort by the United States to halt these creeping advances of Communist imperialism became, by the same mad process of double-think, the only kind of "intervention" there ever could be.
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Or does the hypocrisy and doublethink go beyond a loathing of the human body and an acceptance of violence to a very practical fear that such a club in a predominantly middle-class Caucasian neighborhood will drive down property values?
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