This is a list of the Newspeak words and other fictional terms found in the book by George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, along with their meanings in English.
Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
Newspeak | English | |
---|---|---|
A | ||
ante | before | |
artsem | artificial insemination | |
B | ||
bb | Big Brother | |
bellyfeel | blind, enthusiastic acceptance | |
Big Brother | discreet mass surveillance | |
blackwhite | acceptance of what one is told, regardless of objective reality | |
C | ||
crimestop | the process of ridding oneself of unorthodox views not sponsored by the state | |
crimethink | thoughts that go against the Party orthodoxy | |
crimethinkful | politically or intellectually free | |
D | ||
dayorder | order of the day | |
dep | department | |
doubleplus- | prefix used to emphasize words to an extreme degree | |
doubleplusgood | any superlative of "good" (e.g. excellent, fantastic, etc.) | |
doubleplusungood | any superlative of "bad" (e.g. terrible, horrible, etc.) | |
doublethink | the act of simultaneously believing in contradictory ideas | |
duckspeak | reflexive, vocal support of Party orthodoxy | |
doublespeak | language that deliberately disguises or distorts meaning, often via euphemism or ambiguity | |
F | ||
facecrime | facial expression that reveals one's thoughtcrime | |
Ficdep | fiction department | |
free | absense or lack | |
-ful | used to form an adjective | |
fullwise | fully, completely | |
G | ||
goodsex | sex only for procreation, without pleasure and strictly within marriage | |
goodwell | well (adverb) | |
I | ||
Ingsoc | English Socialist Party ("the Party") | |
J | ||
joycamp | labor camp | |
M | ||
malquoted | inaccurate representations of the Party | |
Miniluv | Ministry of Love, for torture and brainwashing of dissidents | |
Minipax | Ministry of Peace, Oceania's military center | |
Minitrue | Ministry of Truth, propaganda and record-deletion department | |
Miniplenty | Miniplenty, ministry ensuring citizens' perpetual starvation and rationing | |
N | ||
Newspeak | English-based language invented by the Party | |
O | ||
oldspeak | standard English | |
oldthink | ideas before the time of the Party, such as objectivity and rationalism | |
P | ||
plus- | prefix used to emphasize words | |
plusgood | very good, great, etc. | |
plusungood | very bad, terrible, etc. | |
Pornosec | Pornography production sector | |
prole | member of Oceania's working class | |
prolefeed | entertainment to distract the prole masses | |
R | ||
Recdep | Records department, where documents are falsified to conform to the Party's agenda | |
rectify | euphemism for falsifying historical records | |
ref | to refer | |
S | ||
sec | sector | |
sexcrime | sexual immorality, such as fornication and oral sex | |
speakwrite | machine that transcribes speech into text | |
T | ||
Teledep | Telecommunications department | |
telescreen | two-way television used to surveil Oceania's population | |
thinkpol | Thought Police | |
thoughtcrime | unorthodox thought or belief | |
Thought Police | secret paramilitary to punish and reform dissidents | |
U | ||
un- | prefix used to negate words | |
unperson | executed person whose existence is erased from history and memory | |
upsub | submission to higher authority | |
W | ||
-wise | only suffix for forming an adverb |