Newspeak

//ˈn(j)uːspiːk//

Synonyms for "newspeak"

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

3 entries

Related terms

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derived

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derived from

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has context

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is a

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related to

13 entries

Translations

55 translations across 33 languages.

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Armenian

1 entries
  • նորալեզու name (fictional language)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • навамо́ўе name (fictional language)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • новго́вор name (fictional language)

Catalan

1 entries
  • novaparla name (fictional language)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 新話 /新话 name (fictional language)
  • 新語 /新语 name (fictional language)
  • 新話 /新话 noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

Czech

3 entries
  • newspeak name (fictional language)
  • newspeak noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)
  • novořeč noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

Danish

1 entries
  • nysprog name (fictional language)

Dutch

2 entries
  • Newspeak name (fictional language)
  • Nieuwspraak noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • novparolo name (fictional language)

Estonian

1 entries
  • uuskeel name (fictional language)

Finnish

2 entries
  • uuskieli name (fictional language)
  • uuskieli noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

French

2 entries
  • novlangue name (fictional language)
  • novlangue noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

Georgian

1 entries
  • ახალმეტყველება name (fictional language)

German

2 entries
  • Neusprech name (fictional language)
  • Neusprech noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

Hebrew

2 entries
  • שִׂיחָדָשׁ name (fictional language)
  • שִׂיחָדָשׁ noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • újbeszél name (fictional language)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • nýlenska name (fictional language)

Italian

2 entries
  • neolingua name (fictional language)
  • neolingua noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

Japanese

2 entries
  • ニュースピーク name (fictional language)
  • 新語 name (fictional language)

Korean

2 entries
  • 뉴스피크 name (fictional language)
  • 신어 name (fictional language)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • naujakalbė name (fictional language)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • нового́вор name (fictional language)
  • новоговор noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • nytale name (fictional language)

Polish

2 entries
  • nowomowa name (fictional language)
  • nowomowa noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • novafala name (fictional language)
  • novidioma name (fictional language)
  • novilíngua name (fictional language)
  • novilíngua noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

Romanian

1 entries
  • novlimbă name (fictional language)

Russian

2 entries
  • новоя́з name (fictional language)
  • новоя́з noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

Serbo-Croatian

3 entries
  • novogovor name (fictional language)
  • новоговор name (fictional language)
  • novogovor noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

Slovene

1 entries
  • novorek name (fictional language)

Spanish

2 entries
  • neolengua name (fictional language)
  • neolengua noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

Swedish

2 entries
  • nyspråk name (fictional language)
  • nyspråk noun (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • новомо́ва name (fictional language)

Welsh

1 entries
  • Newyddiaith name (fictional language)

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.

Source: tatoeba (5687948)

I wonder if Toki Pona is a bit like Newspeak, the way it limits its vocabulary to just a few words?

Source: tatoeba (10705362)

In Orwell’s 1984, the use of ambiguous and confusing language with restricted grammar and limited vocabulary, known as Newspeak, diminishes the range of a person’s thought process. For example, in Newspeak, the term “Fake News” would replace the words: accurate, correct, factual and reliable news reporting.

Source: wiktionary

The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.

Source: wiktionary

Showing 4 of 10 available sentences.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.