English Explanatory Dictionary

menticide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs.
  2. Efforts to destroy the mind or the will of an individual or group of people.

Word forms

menticide menticides mentacide

Etymology

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

Derived words

menticidal menticidally
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