Nineteen Eighty-Four

Meaning

Noun

  • A society characterized by rigid government control enforced through propoganda and intensive surveillance.

Origin

  • After Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a dystopian novel by George Orwell, set in the year 1984.

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