Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

menticide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: men-ti-cide
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Efforts to destroy the mind or the will of an individual or group of people.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"In the last phases of brainwashing and menticide, the self-humiliating submission of the victims serves as an inner defensive device annihilating the prosecuting inquisitor in a magic way."
"In response, black groups accuse school personnel of practicing genocide and "menticide" (miseducation) for allowing black children to get away with conduct they would not condone in white children."
"I wanted then — and I want today — no laws against "mental kidnapping" or "mentacide" or any other socially unacceptable state of mind."

Etymology

From Latin mēns (“mind”) or mentālis (“mental”) + -cide (“killing”), from Latin -cīdium, by analogy to homicide, genocide, etc. Coined during the 1950s.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: mēns, -cīdium
Suffix: cide

Usage

Inflected Forms

menticides (plural) mentacide (alternative)

Derived Forms

menticidal menticidally

Questions

What does menticide mean?: Brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs.
Where does menticide come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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