anticognitive

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ cognitive.

Adjective

anticognitive (comparative more anticognitive, superlative most anticognitive)

1. Opposing or counteracting cognition.
   • 1997, Patrick Murray, editor, Reflections on Commercial Life:

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

   • 2006, Antonio Imbasciati, Constructing a Mind, page 117:

     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 […]

Translations

opposing or counteracting cognition

• Portuguese: anticognitivo