anticognitive

comparative more anticognitive · superlative most anticognitive

1. Opposing or counteracting cognition.

   […]the culture emphasizes anticognitive and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return to instinctual modes.

   1997, Patrick Murray, editor, Reflections on Commercial Life

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   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[…]

   2006, Antonio Imbasciati, Constructing a Mind, page 117