Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To dismiss from the mind; disregard.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To retract in thought; remove from the mind or thought; think differently about.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive, intransitive To undo the process of thinking.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To recall or take back, as something thought.
Examples
“His "unthink" tank has tried for some time to abolish Colorado's nationally acclaimed judicial selection procedure.”
“I suggest that you prevent your child from watching YouTube, that is to say, be a parent, censor yourself (and those minors you are responsible for) and leave the "unthink" to the thought police, hmm?”
“Try to see the difference and the burden of the one, and the same in the many, in the willingness of unthink in the trials of nothingness”
“We all needed to rethink or unthink the moments of silence we had been curating.”
“Warning: If you click the link, you can't unthink the image of Ron Paul in a bathing suit”
The Huffington Post: HUFFPOST HILL - Congress Passes Budget, Catastrophe Postponed
“In those days Norman Podhoretz dubbed the Beats as “know-nothing bohemians,” and Robert Brustein declared them leaders of “the cult of unthink.””
“I made myself put it out of my mind, I made myself unthink it, but it was too late.”
“Whenever the unthinkable happens, you can be pretty sure science fiction will unthink it.”
“It'll make you unthink everything you might think about Shariah.”
The Huffington Post: Haroon Moghul: This Christmas, Give the Gift of Knowledge About Islam
““Off the hook,” she said and curled into a ball, trying to unthink the Mama in her head.”
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immerbeta Dan Dennett talked of "unthinking engineering" in his 2002 TED speech, quote:
Yesterday, Amory Lovins spoke about "infectious repetitis." It was a term of abuse, in effect. This is unthinking engineering. Well, most of the cultural spread that goes on is not brilliant, new, out-of-the-box thinking; it's infectious repetitis.
And we might as well try to have a theory of what's going on when that happens, so that we can understand the conditions of infection."
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Sep 21, 2008