unthink
verbEtymology From un- + think.
1
To undo the process of thinking.
- They at least had the immense and mighty imagination of which I speak; they could unthink the past. They could uncreate the Fall. With a reverence which moderns might think impudence, they could uncreate the Creation.1930, G. K. Chesterton, The Resurrection of Rome:
- But to do so consistently would require a fairly radical revision of the concept. We should have to unthink as far back as Aristotle […]1993, Henning F Harmuth, Information Theory Applied to Space-time Physics:
2 more examples
- In An Experiment with an Air-Pump, characters repeatedly assert that "once you've thought something, you can't unthink it, can you?"2006, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen:
- "You must learn to edit your thoughts," she said. "Unthink them..."2019, Margaret Atwood, The Testaments, →ISBN, page 333:
- Related terms
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