counterthought

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht Old English þōht Middle English thought English thought English counterthought From counter- + thought.

derived from *þankijaną Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht Old English þōht Middle English thought English thought English counterthought From counter- + thought✻
derived from counter- English counter- Proto-Indo-European *teng-der
derived from contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor
derived from *komterād Latin contrāder✻
derived from *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder✻

Definitions

1
A thought that counters or opposes another thought.
- His thoughts and their counterthoughts are bent and curled, snail-like, inside the whorls of fiction.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for counterthought. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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