bien pensantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French bien-pensant (字義どおりに “well-thinking”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌbjæ̃ pɒ̃ˈsɒ̃/

形容詞

bien pensant (comparative more bien pensant, superlative most bien pensant)

1. Right-thinking, orthodox, conformist.
   • 2010, Bagehot, The Economist, 23 Aug 2010:

     He hopes Mr Abbott wins the election in part because it would, he says, annoy bien-pensant British journalists and Leftists who oppose the Australian's positions on things like abortion, gay marriage or climate change.

   • 2017 March 13, Will Hutton, “Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman – review”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     My biggest beef is the idea that increasingly grips liberal thinkers desperate for anything radical – the concept of a universal income for all. Financially, behaviourally and organisationally bonkers, this idea is gaining traction on the bien pensant left.

名詞

bien pensant (複数形 bien pensants)

1. A person who is bien pensant.
2. Someone who accepts and/or espouses a fashionable idea after it has been established and maintains it without a great amount of critical thought.

形容詞

bien-pensant (comparative more bien-pensant, superlative most bien-pensant)

1. Alternative form of bien pensant