Thoughtcrime. Ungood. Unperson. Anodyne. Bellyfeel

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Thoughtcrime

Definition: Thinking something that violates the government’s prescribed beliefs.

Example:Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

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Ungood

Definition: Bad, the opposite of ‛good.’

Example:Take ‘good’, for instance. If you have a word like ‘good’, what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well—better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not.

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Unperson

Definition: A person about whom all evidence of their existence is erased, typically after they are convicted of a crime and executed.

Example:Withers, however, was already an UNPERSON. He did not exist: he had never existed.

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Vapid

Definition: A lack of substance, empty of thought or meaning.

Example:A sort of vapideagerness flitted across Winston’s face at the mention of Big Brother.

Anodyne

Definition: Inoffensive, unlikely to inspire disagreement. Alternatively, a numbing agent or painkiller.

Example:It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant.

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Bellyfeel

Definition: A blind acceptance of an idea or concept with an implication of enthusiasm for the concept despite a lack of knowledge about it; unbellyfeel is its antonym.

Example:Consider, for example, such a typical sentence from a ‘Times’ leading article as OLDTHINKERS UNBELLYFEEL INGSOC. The shortest rendering that one could make of this in Oldspeak would be: ‘Those whose ideas were formed before the Revolution cannot have a full emotional understanding of the principles of English Socialism.’ But this is not an adequate translation.

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