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doublespeak

noun
/ˈdəbəlˌspiːk/

Etymology

From double + -speak. Coined in the 1950s in the vein of George Orwell's Newspeak as used in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word doublespeak does not appear in the book, although newspeak, oldspeak, and doublethink do.

  1. derived from duplus
  2. derived from doble
  3. inherited from double
  4. suffixed as doublespeak — “double + speak”

Definitions

  1. Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by…

    Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.

    • The report was riddled with so much corporate doublespeak that it was impossible to interpret.
    • The popular and convergent use of information seems to represent something beyond the mere cosmetics of doublespeak, of a "garbage collector" turned "sanitary engineer" or a "strike" turned "work stoppage."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for doublespeak. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA