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anticognitive

adj

Etymology

From anti- + cognitive.

  1. derived from cognitus
  2. derived from cognitīvus
  3. prefixed as anticognitive — “anti + cognitive”

Definitions

  1. Opposing or counteracting cognition.

    • […]the culture emphasizes anticognitive and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return to instinctual modes.
    • 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[…]

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