Newspeak

Contrived language of Oceania from George Orwell's "1984." It uses many English words, albeit with a greatly simplified vocabulary and sentence structure. The elimination of synonyms and antonyms helped this process. It was created in attempt to influence the thought of Oceania's citizens and make it impossible to express thoughts dangerous to Ingsoc (Newspeak for English Socialism). Today this is recognized as political correctness.

Examples:

Minitruth="Ministry of Truth" (Oceanian propaganda ministry)
Ungood="bad"
Doubleplusgood="excellent"
Doublethink=the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts at a time
B-B="Big Brother", ie the State

These translations give a rough estimate of some general rules when using Newspeak.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

by Belisarius March 2, 2004

Newspeak

Orwell's faultless 1948 imagination of what the world would become by 1984. A creation of a genius, since it has turned out to be true - look at political correctness!

All this bullshit around us.

by ComradeDmitri May 28, 2004

newspeak liberal

A socialist (or more generally, a person that loves government taxing "the rich" and helping the poor) that doesn't want to identify as such. He or she gets inspiration from George Orwell' 1984 by torturing the language and using a word meaning "free" to hide their authoritarian intents.

In the U.S., self-identified liberals are really newspeak liberals as they favor government intervention and collective rights. In Europe, liberals are truer to their origins, i.e. in favor of limited government and individual rights - they would be called libertarian in the U.S.

by Gray Sheep December 9, 2014

Newspeak

A term that combines two contradicting words, not to convey meaning but to undermine its true meaning, from the novel 1984.

Feminazi is an example of Newspeak.

by OnisionisCool May 20, 2018

Trumpian Newspeak

BULLSHIT

I'll start my diet tomorrow is nothing more than Trumpian Newspeak.

by Puha March 3, 2020

Newspeak

Alternative uses, alterations or additions to normal vocabulary.

I.e. "slang" "urban dictionary definition"

In direct contrast to the Orwellian definition of the concept.

The Gen Z newspeak for having "game" is "Rizz".

by Spacegoatee January 3, 2023

newspeaker

Someone who censors words to please algorithms, or, a user of Algospeak or Newspeak.

Guy: I can't believe this guy graped all those children! What a PDF! He should unalive himself NOW!!!
Other guy: You can say rape and pedophile here, newspeaker.

by jss-urban December 8, 2025