Newspeak Dictionary
Airstrip One - Formally called
artsem -
Artificial Insemination - The government is pushing this method of childbirth
as the ONLY method, to aid in the destruction of the family unit.
Atomic Wars - The Atomic Wars took place during the 1950's.
Big Brother - There are many similarities between BB and
the real-life Joseph Stalin. Big Brother is also refered
to as simply "B.B." BB is similar to
bellyfeel - Full emotional understanding. Blind,
enthusiastic acceptance of a concept.
blackwhite- The ability to accept whatever "truth" the party
puts out, no matter how absurd it may be.
The Brotherhood - see the resistance
crimestop - Orwell's definition: "The faculty
of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous
thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to
perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are
inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by
any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. In short....protective stupidity."
chocorat - Chocolate ration.
crimethink -
Doubting any of the principles of Ingsoc.
crimethinker - One
who engages in crimethink.
dayorder -
Order of the day.
Disputed Territories - These are areas of the world NOT permanently
included in any of the Superstates : The quadrilateral between Tangier,
doubleplus- - A Prefix used to create the superlative form of
an adjective or adverb. (i.e. - pluscold and doublepluscold meant, respectively, 'very cold'
and 'superlatively cold'.
doublethink - Reality Control. The power to
hold two completely contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and
blindly accept both of them.
duckspeak - (To quack like a duck). To speak without thinking.
Equal - In some cases, a word with possible political connotations was
retained, but the political usage was expunged.
facecrime - Orwell's
definition : "It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when
you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen.
The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an
unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that
carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide.
In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous
when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence.
There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime,
it was called."
FFCC - Organization which supplied cigarettes and other comforts to
sailors on the "Floating Fortresses."
FicDep - Fiction Department of the Ministry of Truth
Floating Fortress - Huge sea bases. Gigantic
battleships.
free - Only exists in the sense of
"The dog is free of lice." Political freedom has been replaced
by the word crimethink.
fullwise -
(adverb) Fully. One of the rules of newspeak is that any word can be
turned into an adverb by adding the suffix "-wise". This allowed the
removal of repetitive words such as completely and totally from
the language.
The Golden Country- A beautiful landscape that Winston
sees in his dreams. It is a symbol of purity.
Goldstein, Emmanuel - The supreme enemy of
the state. He was once a high-ranking member of the party, until he supposedly
betrayed the party and begin engaging in revolutionary
activities. He is the supposed head of the "resistance". Goldstein is
to Ingsoc what Satan is to Christianity... The embodiment of pure evil.
goodsex - Sex for the purpose of producing children
for the party.
goodthinker -
One who strongly adheres to all of the principles of Newspeak.
Hate week - Week in which Oceanian citizens
all attend rallies and parades to inflame hatred of Party enemies and heighten
their efforts on behalf of Oceania.
Ingsoc - English Socialism.
Inner Party. Official Party
members. Upper class.
joycamp - Forced-labor camp.
Junior Anti-sex league - Organization promoting celibacy, and the
eradication of the orgasm, because these things cause feelings of ownlife.
Malabar Front - The front-lines in the war with Eastasia,
located in present day
malreported - When the Times reports
a fact which the government later deemed untrue.
malquoted -
see malreported
memory hole - A system of pipes, similar to pneumatic tubes,
which were used to destroy documents. A document stuffed in the memory hole
would be conveniently whisked away to the furnaces below - quickly & easily
wiped from history.
Miniluv - Ministry of Love (law and order).
Minipax - Ministry of Peace (war)
Miniplenty - Ministry of Plenty (rationing). The
Ministry of Plenty controlled the entire economy.
Minitrue - Ministry of Truth (propaganda)
misprints - see malreported
Newspeak - The official language of
Oldspeak - Standard English
oldthink - Holding on to old ideas and patterns of
thought not consistent with current government policy (Ingsoc).
oldthinkers - Those who engage in oldthink Those who have not fully accepted the new Ingsoc way of thinking.
Outer Party - Middle class. Bureaucrats,
and other government employees.
ownlife - Individualism and eccentricity. A
desire to do something for your own benefit. (i.e.
hobbies, ownership of property, love, or any other Thoughtcrime)
Physical Jerks - Morning
Exercises.
Participation was mandatory for all outer party members. These exercises took
place every day 3 minutes after the morning wake-up call, which for office
workers was at
Pornosec - Department of Minitrue.
Produces the "lowest-kind" of pornography for the
proles. It is described as a "sub-section of the Fiction Department
which turned out cheap pornography for distribution among the proles. It was
nicknamed Muck House by the people who worked in it." They "produced
booklets in sealed packets with titles like Spanking Stories or One Night in a
Girls' School, to be bought furtively by proletarian youths who were under the
impression that they were buying something illegal.
prole -
Proletarians. Approximately 85% of
prolefeed - Rubishy
"Entertainment" and spurious news which the Party handed out to the
masses. This includes written literature, movies, porn, music, and other various propaganda created for the proles.
Recdep - Records Department - Department
of the Ministry of Truth in which Winston Smith worked. Department responsible for
correcting "mistakes" in past newspaper articles.
Reclamation Centre - Colony for children made homeless during the Atomic
Wars.
ref - Reference.
resistance - The resistance was the revolutionary
group which was supposedly led by the arch-traitor, Emmanuel Goldstein. There
is some question as to whether or not this group actually existed. The novel
seems to imply that the resistance was simply fabricated by the government, or at the very least, that the police had agents
posing as real resistance members in order to catch possible recruits.
Room 101 - The final punishment for thoughtcriminals
in the Ministry of Love.
Steamer - Prole word for Rocket
Bomb
sexcrime - Having sex for enjoyment. Also, even having sex in the hope to create a family of your own.
The only time that sex is considered goodsex is when it is performed in
producing offspring for the party.
speakwrite - Voice
recognition machines.
speedwise -
(adverb) quickly. One of the rules of newspeak is that any word can be
turned into an adverb by adding the suffix "-wise". This allowed the
removal of repetitive words such as quickly and promptly from the
language.
Teledep - The Teleprograms
Department of the
Ministry of Truth.
Telescreen - Two way television. All party members has one in every room of their apartment. Because of this,
the party member is never out of earshot of the latest party propaganda, and
not one second goes by that they are not under the surveillance of the party.
There was no way to change the channel, and the telescreen
could not be turned off except by members of the Inner Party.
Thoughtcrime - see crimethink
Thinkpol - ThoughtPolice.
Police force in charge of eliminating crimethink. The thought police
monitor the public by way of spies (narcs),
helicopters, and telescreens.
two minute hate - Daily telescreen specials in
which various elements of crimethink were packaged into a parade of
horrible images and sounds, at which, the viewers were expected to boo, hiss,
curse, and release any negative emotions upon.
unperson - Person
that has been erased from existence by the government for breaking the law in
some way. A unperson
is completely erased from history. All records of their existence is removed from record, and all party members are expected
to removed them from memory. To mention their name is considered thoughtcrime. This eliminates any possibility of
martyrdom.
ungood - Bad. One of
the rules of newspeak is that any word can be turned into its antonym by adding
the prefix "un-". This allowed the removal of repetitive words such
as horrible, terrible, great, fantastic, and fabulous from the
language.
upsub - Get
authorization from superiors (Submit to "Higher-ups" for approval)
vaporized - The act of being executed by the state, and having all
records of your existence erased. Becoming an unperson.
versificator - A
writing machine. A mechanical device that produced
"literature" and "music" for the masses. This was
necessary so that a party member would not be forced to cloud their mind with
such frivolous concepts. It produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost
nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes,
films oozing with sex, and even sentimental songs.
Youth League - Mandatory children's group under
control of the Thought Police. Similar to the
"Hitler Youth". Their member's primary task is to monitor the
activities of their parents.
x yp n quarter
- Method or writing a date. x= Year of the plan, n= quarter of year.
(i.e. 3 yp 4th quarter)
The Three Superstates
Eastasia - Smallest of the 3 Superstates.(Political
System: Death Worship/Obliteration of Self) Comprised of China and the
countries to the south of it,