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Crimestop
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Thoughtcrime.
Crimestop
In the Newspeak vocabulary, the word crimestop denotes eliminating oneself of unwanted, incorrect thoughts (personal and political), the discovery of which, by the Thinkpol, could lead to detection, arrest, and interrogation at Miniluv (the Ministry of Love). The protagonist, Winston Smith, describes crimestop as a conscious process of self-imposed cognitive dissonance: