Dictionary

postjudice en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpəʊstdʒʊdɪs/ (UK)

Etymology

From post- + (pre)judice.

Meanings

1. An opinion or bias acquired after the fact, or after a given event.
   • Prejudice, in fact, is not so much the great intellectual sin as a thing which we may call, to coin a word, “postjudice,” not the bias before the fair trial, but the bias that remains afterwards. 1903, GK Chesterton, Robert Browning:
   • There is a mixture of good sense and of what, for want of a better name, people call prejudice: but to this mixture we owe our stability. The proper word is postjudice, a clinging to past experience, often longer than is held judicious by after times. 1879, Charles L. Dodgson, Euclid and his Modern Rivals, Appendix II:
   • There is another prejudice, or post-judice rather, that may have conditioned my choice of heroes and heroines. 1999, Alistair Cooke, Memories of the Great and the Good:

Forms