Menticide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Menticide is a noun meaning Brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs.
Meaning
Brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs.
More Meanings
- Efforts to destroy the mind or the will of an individual or group of people.
Example Sentences
I wanted then — and I want today — no laws against "mental kidnapping" or "mentacide" or any other socially unacceptable state of mind.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- menticides
- mentacide
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include brainwashing, brain-washing, reeducation, doctrination, de-extremization, manipulism.
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