Etymology

crimethink

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Today it means: The crime of having unorthodox or unofficial thoughts (thoughtcrimes). Full definition →

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The story

Compound of crime + think, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.