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doublethinks

doublethinks is the plural of doublethink.

doublethinks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of doublethink.

Meaning of doublethink

Noun

doublethink (usually uncountable, plural doublethinks)

  1. (usually) 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.
    • 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?1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia...

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What is doublethinks the plural of?
Doublethinks is the plural of doublethink.

Words near doublethinks in the dictionary

  1. doublethink
  2. doublethinked
  3. doublethinker
  4. doublethinkers
  5. doublethinking
  6. doublethinks
  7. doublethought
  8. doublethreaded
  9. doublethunk
  10. doubletime
  11. doubletimed

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