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doublethink

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11 lettersPart of speech nounSorted bdehiklnotuStarts with DEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. believing two contradictory ideas at the same time

Word origin

From double + think. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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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?
  • 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.
  • The same sort of doublethink is evident in the White House’s treatment of firsthand impeachment witnesses.

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