Newspeak
WordNet
noun
(1) Deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language use to mislead and manipulate the public
"The welfare state brought its own newspeak"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
new + speak, coined by George Orwell in the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-four.
Proper noun
- The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc in the novel Nineteen Eighty-four (George Orwell, 1949). Designed to restrict the words, and hence the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania.
- The mode of talk by politicians and officials using ambiguous words to deceive the listener.
- A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting both object-oriented and functional programming.