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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
doublethink
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It seems that George Orwell's doublethink is well and truly alive in Nottingham.
▪ The Palace of the People was, of course, a massive exercise in doublethink.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
doublethink

1948, coined by Orwell in "Nineteen Eighty-Four," from double (adj.) + think.

Wiktionary
doublethink

n. The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

WordNet
doublethink

n. believing two contradictory ideas at the same time

Wikipedia
DoubleThink

DoubleThink is the third album from hip hop artist Akala, It was released on 3 May 2010 by Illa State Records. The title refers to doublethink, a plot element in George Orwell's dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Akala noted this novel, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We as stimulus for the album's dystopian qualities.

Usage examples of "doublethink".

He would have known he was millimeters from a moral pit trap, a bit of doublethink that would expose a violent defensive reaction when triggered.

Because of them we are in danger of hearing Newspeak and Doublethink everywhere.

This is Orwellian doublethink, an offense against fundamental human standards of intellectual decency.