Definitions For Menticide

Noun

MENTICIDE. (countable and uncountable, plural MENTICIDEs) brain-washing, brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs. Efforts to destroy the mind or the will of an individual or group of people.

Derived terms

menticidal menticidally

Translations

Dutch: menticide, f German: Mentizid, m, n

Alternative forms

mentacide

Etymology

From {{etyl, la, en}} mens, , mind or mentalis, , mental + -cīda, , killer, by analogy to homicide, genocide, etc. Coined during the 1950s.

Is Menticide a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary NO

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Scrabble
14
Words with Friends
17

The word Menticide is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends

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