Etymology

Gleichschaltung

G2L1E1I1C3H4S1C3H4A1L1T1U1N1G2

Today it means: The forced standardization of political and social institutions under an authoritarian regime, originally with reference to Nazi Germany. Full definition →

German Gleichschaltung
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. German · borrowed fromGleichschaltung“synchronisation”
  2. English todayGleichschaltung

Unadapted borrowing from German Gleichschaltung (“synchronisation”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.