"thoughtcrime" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈθɔːtˌkɹaɪm/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: thoughtcrimes [plural]
Etymology: thought + crime, coined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Etymology templates: {{com|en|thought|crime}} thought + crime Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} thoughtcrime (countable and uncountable, plural thoughtcrimes)
  1. A crime committed by having unorthodox, unofficial, controversial or socially unacceptable thoughts. Wikipedia link: thoughtcrime Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Crime, Thinking Related terms: crimethink, doublethink Translations (a crime): 思想犯罪 (sīxiǎng fànzuì) (Chinese Mandarin), 思想罪 (sīxiǎngzuì) (Chinese Mandarin), 思罪 (sīzuì) (Chinese Mandarin), ideozločin [masculine] (Czech), gedachtemisdaad [feminine] (Dutch), mõtteroim (Estonian), ajatusrikos (Finnish), crimepensée [masculine] (French), Gedankenverbrechen [neuter] (German), gondolatbűn (Hungarian), myślozbrodnia [feminine] (Polish), мыслепреступле́ние (mysleprestuplénije) [neuter] (Russian), преступмы́сль (prestupmýslʹ) [feminine] (Russian), зломисао [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), zlomisao [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), tankebrott [neuter] (Swedish), krimtänk [neuter] (Swedish), думкозлочин (dumkozločyn) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

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