thoughtcrime

English

Etymology

Coined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɔːtˌkɹaɪm/

Noun

thoughtcrime (countable and uncountable, plural thoughtcrimes)

1. A crime committed by having unorthodox, unofficial, controversial or socially unacceptable thoughts.

Translations

a crime

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 犯罪思想 (fànzuì sīxiǎng)

• Czech: ideozločin m
• Dutch: gedachtemisdaad f
• Finnish: ajatusrikos (fi)
• French: crimepensée m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Gedankenverbrechen f
• Hungarian: gondolatbűn
• Russian: мыслепреступле́ние (ru) n (mysleprestuplénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зломисао f

  Roman: zlomisao f

See also

• doublethink
• crimethink