List of Newspeak Words - Other Newspeak Words

Other Newspeak Words

(Many of these are in fact merely part of the "abbreviated jargon – not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words – used in the Ministry for internal purposes", described by Orwell in chapter 4.)

• ante~: A prefix used meaning "pre~" or "before".
• artsem: Artificial insemination.
• bb: Big Brother.
• crimestop: to rid oneself of unwanted thoughts, i.e., thoughts that interfere with the ideology of the Party. This way, a person avoids committing thoughtcrime.
• current
• dayorder: Order of the day.
• doublethink
• equal: Only in the sense of physically equal, like equal height/size, etc. It does not mean socially – politically or economically – equal, since there is no such concept as social inequality in purportedly egalitarianistic Ingsoc.
• facecrime: An indication that a person is guilty of thoughtcrime based on their facial expression.
• file
• forecast
• free: meaning Negative freedom (without) in a physical sense, only in statements like "This dog is free from lice", as the concepts of "political freedom" and "intellectual freedom" do not exist in Newspeak.
• full: (The adverb fullwise appears in the Records Department's written orders.)
• good: (Can also be used as a prefix vaguely meaning "orthodox".)
• goodthink: Vaguely translatable to orthodox thought.
• ingsoc: English Socialism.
• issue: children produced by goodsex
• joycamp: forced labour camp
• malquoted: flaws or inaccurate presentations of Party or Big Brother-related matters by the press. See misprints below.
• miniluv: "Ministry of Love" (secret police, interrogation and torture)
• minipax: "Ministry of Peace" (Ministry of War, cf: 'Department of Defense' vs 'War Department')
• minitrue: "Ministry of Truth" (propaganda and altering history, culture and entertainment)
• miniplenty: "Ministry of Plenty" (keeping the population in a state of constant economic hardship)
• misprints: Errors or mispredictions which need to be rectified in order to prove that the Party is always right. See malquoted above.
• oldspeak: English; perhaps any language that is not Newspeak.
• oldthink: ideas inspired by events or memories of times prior to the Revolution.
• plus~: A prefix used in the sense of very, i.e., to give an adjective or an adverb a stronger meaning (e.g. plusgood means "very good").
• pornosec: Subunit of the Fiction Department of the Ministry of Truth that produces pornography
• prolefeed: the steady stream of mindless entertainment to distract and occupy the masses
• recdep: "Records Department" (division of the Ministry of Truth that deals with the rectification of records; department in which Winston works)
• rectify: Used by the Ministry of Truth as a euphemism for the deliberate alteration of the past.
• ref: To refer (to).
• report
• sec: Sector.
• speakwrite: An instrument used by Party members to note or "write" down information by speaking into an apparatus as a faster alternative to an "ink pencil". It is, for example, used in the Ministry of Truth by the protagonist Winston Smith.
• telescreen: television and security camera-like devices used by the ruling Party in Oceania to keep its subjects under constant surveillance
• thinkpol: The Thought Police
• upsub: submit to higher authority. In one scene in the novel, Winston Smith is instructed to alter a document to conform with the Party line, and submit it to his superiors before filing it: rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling.
• verify
• yp (year plan)