tankebrott
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From tanke + brott. Reinforced by Nineteen Eighty-Four, although the first known use dates to 1735 (there in the form tankbrott).
Noun edit
tankebrott n
- thoughtcrime; thought considered unacceptable [1745]
- Synonym: krimtänk
- 2018, Staffan Eng, “Historien vi ärvde [The history we inherited]”, in Populär arkeologi [Popular Archaeology][1], number 4, →ISSN Invalid ISSN, page 16:
- Bakom alltsammans skymtade han ett postmodernt kunskapsförakt och en inflytelserik grupp arkeologer, som i stället för att gräva efter sanningen om det förflutna ägnade sig åt att kritisera andra arkeologer – gärna tryggt döda – för diverse tankebrott.
- Behind everything, he saw a postmodern disdain for knowledge and an influential grupp of archaeologists, who instead of digging for the truth about the past, spent their time criticizing other archaeologists – preferably comfortably dead ones – for various thoughtcrimes.
- an interruption in the process of thinking [1735]
Declension edit
| Declension of tankebrott | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | tankebrott | tankebrottet | tankebrott | tankebrotten |
| Genitive | tankebrotts | tankebrottets | tankebrotts | tankebrottens |