propaganda
- 1Information that tries to change what people think by twisting facts or playing on their feelings.
Like a salesperson who only tells you the good things and hides all the bad ones.
The posters were pure propaganda, full of lies about the other side.
Don't believe everything you see online. Some of it is propaganda made to scare you.
Similardisinformation, misinformation, spin
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- 2Messages and information shared with many people to win their support for an idea or cause.
Like advertising, but for ideas instead of products.
The health ministry used propaganda like posters and radio ads to get people to wash their hands.
During the war, both sides used propaganda to keep spirits high at home.
Similarpublicity, promotion, agitprop, advocacy, messaging
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- 3The Catholic Church's work of spreading its faith in other lands, mainly by sending priests abroad.
In the 1600s, the Church sent young priests across the seas for the propaganda of the faith.
Rome raised money for propaganda among peoples who had never heard of Christianity.
Similarpropagation, evangelization, evangelism, proselytism
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Origin
From New Latin prōpāganda, taken from the name of a 1622 Catholic committee for spreading the faith. The word comes from Latin prōpāgō, meaning "propagate." Its modern political sense began in World War I.