The fictional language described in George Orwell’s book 1984, designed so that deviation from the Party’s ideology and beliefs becomes unsayable. The restrictions of vocabulary and of indirect ways of saying things are supposed to make it impossible to express disagreement with the party line: ideology has co-opted language. It might be objected that what Orwell imagines is actually unrealizable, since one can generally simply apply negation to what anyone else puts forward. But thick terms suggest that it is more complicated than that. For instance in a sexist society a woman arguing a case may be described as strident, shrill, or bossy when a man similarly arguing may be said to be forceful and resolute, and it may be difficult to dissent from these judgements without one’s view seeming to deny something obvious to everyone else, and therefore falling on deaf ears. In practice, therefore, dissent has become impossible. Newspeak is less precisely used as a term to describe flaccid, unthinking, or misleading descriptions of things, particularly in political contexts.