counterthought

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

counter- +‎ thought

Noun[edit]

counterthought (plural counterthoughts)

  1. A thought that counters or opposes another thought.
    • 2008 January 1, Richard Eder, “A Writer, a Muse, Their Laundry”, in New York Times[1]:
      His thoughts and their counterthoughts are bent and curled, snail-like, inside the whorls of fiction.