Unthink vs Undream - What's the difference?
unthink | undream | Hypernyms |
(intransitive) To undo the process of thinking.
* 1993 , Henning F Harmuth, Information Theory Applied to Space-time Physics
* 2006 , Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen
To dismiss from the imagination as though never dreamed.
* 1876 , Fanny Wheeler Hart, Miss Hitchcock's Wedding Dress
* 1880 , Theodore Dwight Weld, In Memory: Angelina Grimké Weld
Undream is a hypernym of unthink.
As verbs the difference between unthink and undream
is that unthink is to undo the process of thinking while undream is to dismiss from the imagination as though never dreamed.unthink
English
Verb
- We should have to unthink as far back as Aristotle...
- In An Experiment with an Air-Pump , characters repeatedly assert that "once you've thought something, you can't unthink it, can you?"
See also
* unringundream
English
Verb
- Dreams, whether waking or sleeping ones, continue part of us. We can't undream them. We are roused out of them, but they remain.
- This is all like a dream now; but I can't undream it, and I can't resist it. I must go.