Speakur

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false consciousness

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English

Syllables
false -con-scious-ness
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes due to ideology.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Calque of German falsches Bewusstsein, as used by Friedrich Engels in a letter to Franz Mehring (1893).

Inflected Forms

false consciousnesses (plural)

Antonyms

class consciousness

Questions

What does false consciousness mean?
A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes due to ideology.
Where does false consciousness come from?
Calque of German falsches Bewusstsein, as used by Friedrich Engels in a letter to Franz Mehring (1893).

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