Newspeak
The prefix that replaces before
Artificial insemination
The blind, enthusiastic acceptance of an idea
To accept whatever one is told, regardless of the facts. In the novel, it is described as "...to say that black is white when the Party says so" and "...to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary". To rid oneself of unorthodox thoughts that go against Ingsoc's ideology
Thoughts and concepts that go against Ingsoc, frequently referred to by the standard English “thoughtcrime”, such as liberty, equality, and privacy, and also the criminal act of holding such thoughts
Order of the day
Department
The word that replaced Oldspeak words meaning "superlatively good", such as excellent, fabulous, and fantastic
The word that replaced Oldspeak words meaning "superlatively bad", such as terrible and horrible
The act of simultaneously believing two, mutually contradictory ideas
Automatic, vocal support of political orthodoxies
A facial expression which reveals that one has committed thoughtcrime
The Ministry of Truth's Fiction Department
The absence and the lack of something. "Intellectually free" and "politically free" have been replaced by crimethinkful.
The word that replaces words such as fully, completely, and totally
A synonym for "political orthodoxy" and "a politically orthodox thought" as defined by the Party
Sexual intercourse only for procreation, without any physical pleasure on the part of the woman, and strictly within marriage
The word that replaced well as an adverb
The English Socialist Party (i.e. The Party)
Labour camp
Inaccurate representations of the words of Big Brother and of the Party
The Ministry of Love, where the secret police interrogate and torture the enemies of Oceania (torture and brainwashing)
The Ministry of Peace, who wage war for Oceania
The Ministry of Truth, who manufacture consent by way of lies, propaganda, and distorted historical records, while supplying the proles (proletariat) with synthetic culture and entertainment
The Ministry of Plenty, who keep the population in continual economic hardship (starvation and rationing)
Standard English
Ideas from the time before the Party's revolution, such as objectivity and rationalism
A person's anti-social tendency to enjoy solitude and individualism
The word that replaced Oldspeak words meaning "very good", such as great
The word that replaced "very bad"
The pornography production section (Porno sector) of the Ministry of Truth's Fiction Department
Popular culture for entertaining Oceania's working class
The Ministry of Truth's Records Department, where Winston Smith rewrites historical records so they conform to the Party's agenda
The Ministry of Truth's euphemism for manipulating a historical record
To refer (to someone or something)
Sector
A sexual immorality, such as fornication, adultery, oral sex, and homosexuality; any sex act that deviates from Party directives to use sex only for procreation
A machine that transcribes speech into text
The Ministry of Truth's Telecommunications Department
A two-way television set with which the Party spy upon Oceania's population
The Thought Police, the secret police force of Oceania's government
An executed person whose existence is erased from history and memory
An upwards submission to higher authority