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anticognitive

anticognitive adjective: opposing or counteracting cognition.

Adjective

anticognitive (comparative more anticognitive, superlative most anticognitive)

  1. Opposing or counteracting cognition.
    • […]the culture emphasizes anticognitive and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return to instinctual modes.1997, Patrick Murray, editor, Reflections on Commercial Life
    • Many authors – in particular, Meltzer and Bion – have described clinical situations in which the mind, where wholly or relatively incapable of tolerating psychic pain, performs destructive, or anticognitive, operations[…]2006, Antonio Imbasciati, Constructing a Mind, page 117

Forms of anticognitive

comparativemore anticognitive
superlativemost anticognitive

Origin of anticognitive

From anti- + cognitive.

Questions about anticognitive

What does anticognitive mean?
Anticognitive means opposing or counteracting cognition.
What part of speech is anticognitive?
Anticognitive is an adjective.

Words near anticognitive in the dictionary

  1. anticodons
  2. anticoercive
  3. anticoeur
  4. anticoeurs
  5. anticoffee
  6. anticognitive
  7. anticoherence
  8. anticoherent
  9. anticoherer
  10. anticoherers
  11. anticoincidence

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