English Explanatory Dictionary

thought-terminating cliché

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A commonly used phrase or piece of folk wisdom used to quell cognitive dissonance.

Word forms

thought-terminating cliché thought-terminating clichés

Etymology

Popularised by the book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism (1961).

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