Meanings
plural mindquakes
- informalA 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 1721 more example
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 18Synonyms: viewquake
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA sudden drastic change in one's thoughts or beliefs.
Origin
From mind + quake, by analogy with earthquake.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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