doublethink
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of doublethink
double + think 1; coined by George Orwell in his novel 1984 (1949)
Example Sentences
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Greene and Bolling really provide a remarkable example of doublethink.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2025
There’s so much doublethink when it comes to the diet-industrial complex that I can barely stake out a coherent position.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2019
From Orwell’s evocation of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania, new words entered the language: doublethink, thoughtcrime, newspeak and Big Brother.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2019
It bombards you with mutually contradictory claims, which often come packaged in doublethink pairs.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 18, 2018
This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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