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doublethink

The English word “doublethink” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as true or correct; an instance of doing so.

verb

  1. To engage in doublethink.

Etymology

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

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