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thought-terminating cliché

noun

Etymology

Popularised by the book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism (1961).

Definitions

  1. A commonly used phrase or piece of folk wisdom used to quell cognitive dissonance.

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

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