nineteen eighty-four
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A society characterized by rigid government control enforced through propaganda and intensive surveillance.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I cannot help but follow such panopticism to its ultimate conclusion: a Nineteen Eighty-Four scenario."
- "The term 'nuclear family' may be found dislikable, but it is useful in avoiding the suggestion that Plato wants to abolish the family in favour of impersonal institutions of a Nineteen Eighty-Four type."
- "Dick's novel condemns this method, because she felt it destroyed creative work and encouraged a Nineteen Eighty-Four atmosphere of fear, and the novel ends with the triumph of hope and a faith in human love."
- "Thus arises again the specter of a Nineteen Eighty-Four, of a brave new world of robots, of a waste land that is ever more sterile, of a West that is sick from lack of mysticism."
- "Whether produced as a Utopia or as a Nineteen Eighty-Four, a condition of changelessness would make man something less than human."
- "Barnes finds an acceleration of the Orwellian trend in American life, and he cites C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite as providing "the best description of the progress made toward a Nineteen Eighty-Four social order in the United States."