0 a situation in which someone seems to believe two opposite things, or claims to believe something but does the opposite:
The playwright instils his play with an Orwellian kind of Doublethink.
The debate about Britain's drinking culture should be linked to the absurdity and doublethink of our drug laws.
By the 18th century, this doublethink produced the idea of the "nude" as a somehow lustless depiction of the human form.
It's a lot for a small child to get her mind around this kind of doublethink, where things are obviously going on and yet everyone's valiantly pretending they aren't.
There is an extraordinary capacity for doublethink. They delight in pointing the finger at everyone else and do not acknowledge they have a problem.
