Orwellian

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Resembling the totalitarian political methods decried in the works of writer George…

   Resembling the totalitarian political methods decried in the works of writer George Orwell, particularly in the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four; characterized by use of misleading terminology, propaganda, censorship, surveillance and repression.

   • “But they soon find out that an enforced equality, without free individualism to temper it, becomes an Orwellian nightmare-version of the workers' paradise, in which ‘all are equal, but some are more equal than others.’”
   • “The Orwellian slogan that ‘War is Peace’ was, consciously or unconsciously, from the beginning adopted by both conflicting groups within the U.N.”
2. 2

   Resembling, or having to do with, George Orwell, and especially his novel 1984.

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• synonym1984-esque
• synonym1984-ish
• synonymOrwellesque
• neighborBig Brother
• neighborDickensian
• neighbordoublethink
• neighbordystopian
• neighborKafkaesque
• neighborNewspeak
• neighbortotalitarian