groupthink
noun/ˈɡɹuːpθɪŋk/UK
Etymology
Coined by William H. Whyte in 1952, from group + think, modelled on earlier doublethink from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- derived from *teng-✻
- inherited from *þankijaną✻
- inherited from *þankijan✻
- inherited from þenċan
- inherited from thinken
Definitions
A process of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially one characterized by…
A process of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially one characterized by uncritical acceptance of or conformity to a perceived majority view.
- This gang-bang speaks more to journalistic groupthink than to any real moral or legal reasoning.
- Anyone who works for a news organization (or any large corporation, for that matter) can weave tales of woe around all the planning, brainstorming, off-site retreats and other groupthinks that led nowhere.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for groupthink. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA