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anticognitive en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + cognitive.

Meanings

  1. Opposing or counteracting cognition.
    • 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:
    • […]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:

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most anticognitive Degree=Sup lexicographic

Translations (1)

pt anticognitivo (opposing or counteracting cognition)