tankebrott

Swedish

Etymology

From tanke + brott. Reinforced by Nineteen Eighty-Four, although the first known use dates to 1735 (there in the form tankbrott).

Noun

tankebrott n

  1. thoughtcrime; thought considered unacceptable [1745]
    Synonym: krimtänk
    • 2018, Staffan Eng, “Historien vi ärvde [The history we inherited]”, in Populär arkeologi [Popular Archaeology], number 4, →ISSN Invalid ISSN, page 16:
      Bakom alltsammans skymtade han ett postmodernt kunskapsförakt och en inflytelserik grupp arkeologer, som i stället för att gräva efter sanningen om det förflutna ägnade sig åt att kritisera andra arkeologer – gärna tryggt döda – för diverse tankebrott.
      Behind everything, he saw a postmodern disdain for knowledge and an influential grupp of archaeologists, who instead of digging for the truth about the past, spent their time criticizing other archaeologists – preferably comfortably dead ones – for various thoughtcrimes.
  2. an interruption in the process of thinking [1735]

Declension

Declension of tankebrott 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tankebrott tankebrottet tankebrott tankebrotten
Genitive tankebrotts tankebrottets tankebrotts tankebrottens

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.