anticognitive
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editanticognitive (comparative more anticognitive, superlative most anticognitive)
- Opposing or counteracting cognition.
- 1997, Patrick Murray, editor, 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 […]
Translations
editopposing or counteracting cognition
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