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All newspeak synonyms

newΒ·speak
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noun newspeak

  • cant β€” a salient angle.
  • colloquialism β€” A colloquialism is a colloquial word or phrase.
  • doublespeak β€” evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
  • drivel β€” saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
  • fustian β€” a stout fabric of cotton and flax.
  • gibberish β€” meaningless or unintelligible talk or writing.
  • insipidity β€” without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
  • lexicon β€” a wordbook or dictionary, especially of Greek, Latin, or Hebrew.
  • neologism β€” a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
  • nonsense β€” words or language having little or no sense or meaning.
  • palaver β€” a conference or discussion.
  • patter β€” to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
  • rigmarole β€” an elaborate or complicated procedure: to go through the rigmarole of a formal dinner.
  • slanguage β€” slang; a vocabulary of slang.
  • speech β€” the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity.
  • tongue β€” Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
  • twaddle β€” trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious talk or writing.
  • usage β€” a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice: the usages of the last 50 years.
  • cliche β€” A clichΓ© is an idea or phrase which has been used so much that it is no longer interesting or effective or no longer has much meaning.
  • mumbo jumbo β€” meaningless incantation or ritual.
  • shoptalk β€” the specialized vocabulary having to do with work or a field of work: I don't understand electronics shoptalk.
  • disinformation β€” false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
  • hype β€” to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.
  • indoctrination β€” the act of indoctrinating, or teaching or inculcating a doctrine, principle, or ideology, especially one with a specific point of view: religious indoctrination.
  • publicity β€” extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
  • advertising β€” Advertising is the activity of creating advertisements and making sure people see them.
  • agitprop β€” Agitprop is the use of artistic forms such as drama or posters to further political aims.
  • announcement β€” An announcement is a statement made to the public or to the media which gives information about something that has happened or that will happen.
  • brainwashing β€” the process of brainwashing.
  • doctrine β€” a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government: Catholic doctrines; the Monroe Doctrine.
  • evangelism β€” The spreading of the Christian gospel by public preaching or personal witness.
  • handout β€” a portion of food or the like given to a needy person, as a beggar.
  • hogwash β€” refuse given to hogs; swill.
  • implantation β€” the act of implanting.
  • inculcation β€” the act of inculcating, or teaching or influencing persistently and repeatedly so as to implant or instill an idea, theory, attitude, etc.
  • promotion β€” advancement in rank or position.
  • promulgation β€” to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • proselytism β€” the act or fact of becoming a proselyte; conversion.
  • publication β€” the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
  • argot β€” An argot is a special language used by a particular group of people, which other people find difficult to understand.
  • idiom β€” an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
  • lingo β€” the language and speech, especially the jargon, slang, or argot, of a particular field, group, or individual: gamblers' lingo.
  • parlance β€” a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
  • patois β€” a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
  • slang β€” a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
  • vernacular β€” (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to literary or learned).
  • vocabulary β€” the stock of words used by or known to a particular people or group of persons: His French vocabulary is rather limited. The scientific vocabulary is constantly growing.
  • abracadabra β€” Abracadabra is a word that someone says when they are performing a magic trick in order to make the magic happen.
  • balderdash β€” If you say that something that has been said or written is balderdash, you think it is completely untrue or very stupid.
  • banality β€” the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
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