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double-think

[duhb-uhl-thingk]

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noun

the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.

Origin:
double + think¹; coined by George Orwell in his novel 1984 (1949)

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doublethink

1948, coined by Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, from double + think.

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