thoughtcrime

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received 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: 思想犯罪 (sīxiǎng fànzuì), 思想罪 (sīxiǎngzuì), 思罪 (sīzuì)

• Czech: ideozločin m
• Dutch: gedachtemisdaad f
• Estonian: mõtteroim
• Finnish: ajatusrikos (fi)
• French: crimepensée m
• German: Gedankenverbrechen (de) n
• Hungarian: gondolatbűn (hu)
• Polish: myślozbrodnia (pl) f
• Russian: мыслепреступле́ние (ru) n (mysleprestuplénije), преступмы́сль (ru) f (prestupmýslʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зломисао f

  Roman: zlomisao f

• Swedish: tankebrott n, krimtänk n
• Ukrainian: думкозлочин m (dumkozločyn)

See also

• crimethink
• doublethink