Etymology

wrongthink

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Today it means: Beliefs or opinions that run contrary to the prevailing or mainstream orthodoxy. Full definition →

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The story

Compound of wrong + think, probably modelled on earlier crimethink from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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