counterthought

English

Etymology

From counter- +‎ thought.

Noun

counterthought (plural counterthoughts)

1. A thought that counters or opposes another thought.
   • 2008 January 1, Richard Eder, “A Writer, a Muse, Their Laundry”, in New York Times‎:

     His thoughts and their counterthoughts are bent and curled, snail-like, inside the whorls of fiction.