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mindquake

noun

Etymology

From mind + quake, by analogy with earthquake.

  1. inherited from *kwakōną✻ — “to shake, quiver, tremble”
  2. inherited from cwacian — “to quake, tremble, chatter”
  3. inherited from quaken
  4. compounded as mindquake — “mind + quake”

Definitions

  1. A sudden drastic change in one's thoughts or beliefs.

    • For our Irish neighbors on the Beara Peninsula, it was a mindquake that shook the foundations of their belief.
    • We knew that we needed to change the mentality of Egyptians, to bring about a mindquake, an earthquake in the mind, to arm Egyptians with action tools.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA