thoughtcrime

English

Etymology

From thought +‎ crime, coined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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thoughtcrime (countable and uncountable, plural thoughtcrimes)

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

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