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noun
Brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Efforts to destroy the mind or the will of an individual or group of people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
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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