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cognitive dissonance: Meaning and Definition of
cog'nitive dis'sonance
Pronunciation: [key]
— Psychol. Psychol.
- anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or the like, as when one likes a person but disapproves strongly of one of his or her habits.
