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名詞

mindquake (plural mindquakes)

1. (informal) A sudden drastic change in one's thoughts or beliefs.
   • 2000, James Lovelock, The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth, page 172:

     For our Irish neighbors on the Beara Peninsula, it was a mindquake that shook the foundations of their belief.

   • 2014, Linda Herrera, Revolution in the Age of Social Media, page 18:

     We knew that we needed to change the mentality of Egyptians, to bring about a mindquake, an earthquake in the mind, to arm Egyptians with action tools.

同意語

• viewquake