mindquake
nounEtymology From mind + quake, by analogy with earthquake.
1
Informal A sudden drastic change in one's thoughts or beliefs.
- For our Irish neighbors on the Beara Peninsula, it was a mindquake that shook the foundations of their belief.2000, James Lovelock, The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth, page 172:
- We knew that we needed to change the mentality of Egyptians, to bring about a mindquake, an earthquake in the mind, to arm Egyptians with action tools.2014, Linda Herrera, Revolution in the Age of Social Media, page 18:
- Synonyms
- viewquake