menticide
menticide · menticides
Mentizid
Brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefsBrain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs.
Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)Brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs.
Mentizid
(countable, uncountable)Efforts to destroy the mind or the will of an individual or group of people.
Translations
1 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 1
brain-washing:
Origin
From Latin mēns (“mind”) or mentālis (“mental”) + -cide (“killing”), from Latin -cīdium, bFrom Latin mēns (“mind”) or mentālis (“mental”) + -cide (“killing”), from Latin -cīdium, by analogy to homicide, genocide, etc. Coined during the 1950s.
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Forms
plural: menticidesWord family
1 related wordsDerivedmenticidal
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable