Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or practice of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially when characterized by uncritical acceptance or conformity to prevailing points of view.
Wiktionary
- n. A process of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially one characterized by uncritical acceptance or conformity to a perceived majority view.
WordNet 3.0
- n. decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility)
Etymologies
- group + think (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If only Macpherson had used the term groupthink instead the absurdity above wouldn't have happened.”
“They engage in groupthink and newspeak and you can spend a lifetime shaking them off.”
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“The same groupthink is at play with today's election.”
“To wit, I now and then think, or perhaps despair, that inane mediocre groupthink is the whole point of humanity.”
“Writing that reaction off as defensive groupthink is defensive groupthink.”
“I'm sorry, is this supposed to somehow show that olegt DOES NOT engage in groupthink?”
“Forum groupthink is insanely established to the point you generally go to forums that agree with you, or you learn to fit in fast or shut up about anything that the regulars have deemed to be wrong.”
“That type of monolithic groupthink is the Republican way.”
“I thought that forced conformity was a lefty thing, but if these comments are any indication groupthink is alive and well.”
“The newspaper and university driven groupthink is out of control.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘groupthink’.
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Psychology
stockholm syndrome, stereotype, ergonomics, human-computer in..., prejudice, neo-luddism, stress, trauma, psychopathology, psychotic, neurosis, depression and 180 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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Keeping Secrets
Words of 10 letters, all different, can be used for encrypting, pretty securely, such things as PINs and passwords. The fly in the ointment, for me, in keeping track of them is I've got to write '...
lumberjack, birthplace, whiskeybar, vanquished, metaphysic, precaution, quizmaster, dumbwaiter, thumbscrew, blacksmith, wholegrain, wanderlust and 105 more...
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edes's Words
table talk, tuneful, bestrewn, determinate fashion, unpretending, personage, duly impressed, shirring, caw, hatchet job, gummy, comely and 225 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 244 more...
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neologisms I like
nimrod, snarky, painbow, interrobang, hoser, kooky, craptastic, preggers, asshat, brainiac, shoegaze, skanker-sore and 146 more...
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 866 more...
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Mindless Words
That which is without reason.
shibboleth, truthiness, sheeple, groupthink, propaganda, belief, dubious, platitude, jingo, hexakosioihexekon..., wikiality, cliché and 7 more...
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Groupthink
Intra-Group dynamics, psychology of/within, and heard mentality.
acculturation, isopraxism, girouettism, steinzor effect, crowdsourcing, ethnocentric, syntality, conclamation, esprit de corps, ethnomania, entryism, herd crime and 78 more...
Tweets
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