单词 | countersuggestions |
释义 | countersuggestionnoun coun·ter·sug·ges·tion ˌkau̇n-tər-səg-ˈjes-chən -sə-ˈjes-, -ˈjesh- variants or less commonly counter-suggestion plural countersuggestions also counter-suggestions 1 : an opposing or alternative suggestion The politicians have also hit on the rather cunning counter-suggestion that the political correspondents who write about them, and the newspaper proprietors whose organs criticize them, should also come clean. Punch 2 a psychology : a suggestion made (as by a therapist) to an individual with the intention of getting the individual to say or do the opposite of what is suggested also : a suggestion that challenges a belief in order to evaluate the strength of the belief by the reaction elicited b psychology : a method of psychotherapy that uses countersuggestions c : a suggestion made (as by a hypnotist) to an individual who is under hypnosis in order to cause a change in the individual's thoughts or behavior countersuggestions noun variants also counter-suggestions as in proposals Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance
|
随便看 |
英语词典包含469781条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。