menticide

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs. countable,uncountable
    — In the last phases of brainwashing and menticide, the self-humiliating submission of the victims serves as an inner defensive device annihilating the prosecuting inquisitor in a magic way.
  2. Efforts to destroy the mind or the will of an individual or group of people. countable,uncountable
    — In response, black groups accuse school personnel of practicing genocide and "menticide" (miseducation) for allowing black children to get away with conduct they would not condone in white children.

词形变化

menticides plural mentacide alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
menticidal menticidally

词源

From 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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