anticognitive

English

Etymology

anti- + cognitive

Adjective

anticognitive (comparative more anticognitive, superlative most anticognitive)

  1. Opposing or counteracting cognition.
    • 1997, Patrick Murray (ed.), Reflections on Commercial Life
      [] the culture emphasizes anticognitive and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return to instinctual modes.
    • 2006, Antonio Imbasciati, Constructing a Mind, page 117:
      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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