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noun
The retreat to one's private life in the face of an oppressive state, instead of overt opposition or emigration to another country.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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History
Calque of German innere Emigration, popularized by German writer Frank Thiess in his response to Thomas Mann's BBC broadcast, defending the choice of some German intellectuals to remain in Nazi Germany despite being opposed to Nazism.
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