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Newspeak meaning

  1. The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc and designed to restrict the words, and thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania in the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
  2. A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting both object-oriented and functional programming.

Synonyms of Newspeak

fabrication manufacture

Related words

Other words often associated with Newspeak or its synonyms:

fiction authorship industry construction construct hatch falsehood penning writing fabricate untruth assembly

Using Newspeak

  • The main meaning on this page is: The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc and designed to restrict the words, and thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania in the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. | A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting both object-oriented and functional programming.
  • Useful related words include: fabrication, manufacture.
  • In the example corpus, newspeak often appears in combinations such as: of newspeak, in newspeak, the newspeak.

Context around Newspeak

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 12 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

orwellian 1×

Often after:

term 1× infusing 1× parlance 1× notwithstanding 1×

Sentence patterns with Newspeak

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

aim of newspeak is to 1× degrees in newspeak and it 1× exist in newspeak but differently 1× gospel of newspeak which can 1× ideology of newspeak was no 1× in the newspeak parlance of 1× minitrue in newspeak where he 1× new orwellian newspeak infusing every 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

adding to the 1× calling everyone here 1× his protagonist winston 1× insight don t 1× like george orwell 1× newspeak is a 1×

Common sentence endings:

decade or so 1× for the regime 1× independent thought impossible 1× it was glorious 1× newspeak but differently 1× of thought itself 1×

Words around Newspeak

Just before it in the word index:

newspaperslos 6 newspapers 1.619 newspapermen 8 newspaperman 8 newspapering 6 newspaper 3.855

Just after it in the word index:

newsperson 2 newsplex 2 newspoll 11 newsprint 24 newsprinters 3 newsquare 18

Similar in corpus frequency:

aami 16 abada 16 abbottabad 16 abdulkareem 16 abha 16 abominations 16

Corpus analysis for Newspeak

  • In this selection, "newspeak" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, orwellian, term, infusing and parlance stand out and add context to how "newspeak" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include aim of newspeak is to and degrees in newspeak and it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "newspeak" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with newspeak

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Calling everyone here illegally an “undocumented worker” is newspeak. (9 words)

It was 57 degrees (14 degrees in newspeak) and it was glorious. (12 words)

Newspeak is a simplified and obfuscatory language designed to make independent thought impossible. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

His protagonist, Winston—like Kitty—works for the government in its Ministry of Truth, or Minitrue in Newspeak, where he rewrites historical records to support whatever Big Brother currently says is good for the regime. (35 words)

This has given syllabic abbreviations negative connotations in some countries, (as in Orwell's Newspeak ), notwithstanding that such abbreviations were used in Germany even before the Nazis came to power, e.g., Schupo for Schutzpolizei. (35 words)

When your generation’s social influencers do as trained and judge past and present behavior by the gospel of newspeak — which can only be found wanting — they get to exercise coercive power over others. (34 words)

Question examples

Insight: “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? (18 words)

Example sentences (13)

The ideology of Newspeak was no less or more than to cut off all avenues of thought itself.

Like George Orwell’s newspeak in the Left has turned this on its head.

Thoughtcrime (technically the Newspeak term is ) is a notion that’s been growing in popularity over the past decade or so.

When your generation’s social influencers do as trained and judge past and present behavior by the gospel of newspeak — which can only be found wanting — they get to exercise coercive power over others.

Adding to the collective incomprehension, there’s new Orwellian Newspeak, infusing every facet of today’s inverted civil-military relations, that tacks toward the absurd.

It was 57 degrees (14 degrees in newspeak) and it was glorious.

The literature of the past would be destroyed and Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton will only exist in Newspeak but differently.

Insight: “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?

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Calling everyone here illegally an “undocumented worker” is newspeak.

His protagonist, Winston—like Kitty—works for the government in its Ministry of Truth, or Minitrue in Newspeak, where he rewrites historical records to support whatever Big Brother currently says is good for the regime.

Strand and Pier’s construction management plan says that “dewatering,” in the Newspeak parlance of large-scale construction, is conventionally done by pumping, treating and discharging water throughout construction.

Newspeak is a simplified and obfuscatory language designed to make independent thought impossible.

This has given syllabic abbreviations negative connotations in some countries, (as in Orwell's Newspeak ), notwithstanding that such abbreviations were used in Germany even before the Nazis came to power, e.g., Schupo for Schutzpolizei.

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Common combinations with newspeak

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "newspeak" in a sentence?
An example: "The ideology of Newspeak was no less or more than to cut off all avenues of thought itself." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "newspeak" from authentic English texts.
What does "newspeak" mean?
Newspeak means: The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc and designed to restrict the words, and thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania in the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
What are synonyms of "newspeak"?
Common synonyms of "newspeak" include: fabrication, manufacture.
How many example sentences with "newspeak" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "newspeak", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.