💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Doublespeak"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| hypocrisynoun | The claim or pretense of having beliefs, standards, qualities, behaviours, virtues, motivations, etc. which one does not really have. |
| ambiguitynoun | (uncountable) The state of being ambiguous; the state of leaving room for more than one interpretation. |
| duplicitynoun | Intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing. |
| orwellian | Resembling the totalitarian political methods decried in the works of writer George Orwell, particularly in the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four; characterized by use of misleading terminology, propaganda, censorship, surveillance and repression. |
| double-speaknoun | — |
| newspeaknoun | (fiction) The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc and designed to restrict the words, and thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania in the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. |
| equivocationnoun | The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading. |
| doublenessnoun | The state of being double or doubled. |
| obfuscationnoun | (uncountable) The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret. |
| forked tonguenoun | (idiomatic) The characteristic of deceptiveness; duplicity; untruthfulness. |
| dissimulationnoun | The act of concealing the truth; hypocrisy or deception. |
| smokescreennoun | (figuratively) Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract. |
| subterfugenoun | (uncountable) Deception; misrepresentation of the true nature of an activity. |
| razzmatazznoun | (informal) Something presenting itself in a fanciful and showy, often unrealistic manner, especially when intended to impress and confuse. |
| hedgingnoun | (finance) the practice of taking a position in one market to offset and balance against the risk adopted by assuming a position in a contrary or opposing market or investment |
| disguisenoun | Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another. |
| misspeakingnoun | The fact or instance of speaking incorrectly, falsely, or unclearly. |
| dissemblancenoun | (uncountable) Dissembling, as a kind of behavior; dissembling, generally. |
| double-handednessnoun | Ambidexterity |
| dissimilationnoun | The act of dissimilating, of making dissimilar. |
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