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noun
- Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity. Typically used by governments or large institutions.
- The report was riddled with so much corporate that it was impossible to interpret.
- 1976, Brent D. Ruben, The Coming of the Information Age, in Information and Behavior (Brent D. Ruben, ed.), page 7
- :The popular and convergent use of information seems to represent something beyond the mere cosmetics of , of a "garbage collector" turned "sanitary engineer" or a "strike" turned "work stoppage."
Etymology: Coined in the 1950s in the vein of w:George Orwell, George Orwell's w:Newspeak, Newspeak as used in his book w:Nineteen Eighty-Four, Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word doublespeak does not appear in the book, although newspeak, oldspeak, and doublethink do.
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