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anticognitive

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Opposing or counteracting cognition.

Equivalents

Portuguêsanticognitivo

Examples

“[…]the culture emphasizes anticognitive and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return⟳ to instinctual modes.”
“Many authors – in particular, Meltzer and Bion – have⟳ described clinical situations in which the mind⟳, where wholly or relatively incapable of tolerating psychic pain, performs destructive, or anticognitive, operations[…]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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