an instance of unorthodox or controversial thinking, considered as a criminal offence or as socially unacceptable:academia is pandering to politicized pressure groups with courses on feminism and homosexuality, and persecuting colleagues who are guilty of thoughtcrimes
Origin:
1949: from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
thoughtcrime in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of thoughtcrime in the US English dictionary
