单词 | orwellism |
释义 | Orwellismn. Something characteristic or reminiscent of the totalitarian social and political organization portrayed in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four (1949); spec. an ambiguous, euphemistic, or misleadingly used word or phrase used in official pronouncements, political propaganda, etc. Cf. Newspeak n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > ideas, etc., characteristic of specific writer Marlowism1593 Rabelaism1803 Johnsonianism1807 Johnsonism1807 Boswellism1825 Swiftianism1826 Walter Scottism1835 Carlylism1841 Voltairism1841 Macaulayism1846 Voltairianism1848 Zolaism1882 Rabelaisianism1886 Brontëism1887 Arnoldism1892 Kiplingism1898 Shavianism1905 Menckenism1922 Sitwellism1922 Pirandellism1925 Shavianismus1927 Proustery1928 Wodehousian1931 Waughism1934 Snovianism1966 Orwellianism1967 Pinterism1967 Orwellism1970 Pinterishness1970 1970 Guardian 30 Nov. 11/2 His election night insistence that the blood on his face was nothing less than the blush of victory can now be seen as a triumph of public relations.., an interesting example of the progress of Orwellism in national politics. 1987 Jrnl. Palestine Stud. 16 33 Meanwhile, U.S. elites underwent a magical conversion; they became profoundly concerned..with human rights and ‘democracy’ (another Orwellism, referring to guaranteed rule by the military and business-based elements linked to U.S. corporations) in Nicaragua and Iran. 1988 N. Chomsky Propaganda Systems in ‘W. Tinasky’ Lett. (1996) iii. 195/1 What the public relations industry calls the ‘engineering of consent’, another Orwellism meaning ‘thought control’. 2001 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 18 Mar. 7 Agamemnon's insistence that the conflict over Helen's presence in Troy will be a ‘rescue operation’, not a war, is an Orwellism which would befit the phrase coiners of ‘friendly fire’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1970 |
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