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newspeak

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Noun

  1. Use of ambiguous, misleading, or euphemistic words in order to deceive the listener, especially by politicians and officials.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of newspeak.

Proper noun

  1. The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc and designed to restrict the words, and thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania in the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
  2. A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting both object-oriented and functional programming.

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