Associations to the word «Orwellian»

Wiktionary

ORWELLIAN, adjective. Resembling the totalitarian political methods decried in the works of British democratic socialist and writer George Orwell, particularly in the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four; characterized by use of misleading terminology, propaganda, censorship, totalitarianism, surveillance and repression.

Dictionary definition

ORWELLIAN, adjective. Of or relating to the works of George Orwell (especially his picture of a future totalitarian state).

Wise words

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche