herdthink
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Reasoning based on or characteristic of uncritical acceptance of or conformity to a perceived majority view.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "But there is another America, too—an America of herdthink, of intolerance."
- "The most extreme and eventually the most dangerous kind of “herdthink” was hard to miss in the natural resource stocks, particularly the copper and natural gas stocks, as long as you knew what to look for."
- "Traders also need to understand these cognitive biases to avoid herdthink."