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Doublespeak vs Lying - What's the difference?

doublespeak | lying |

As nouns the difference between doublespeak and lying

is that doublespeak is any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity. Typically used by governments or large institutions while lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

As a verb lying is

present participle of lang=en.

doublespeak

English

Noun

(-)
  • Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity. Typically used by governments or large institutions.
  • :The report was riddled with so much corporate doublespeak that it was impossible to interpret.
  • *1976 , Brent D. Ruben, The Coming of the Information Age'', in ''Information and Behavior (Brent D. Ruben, ed.), page 7
  • *:The popular and convergent use of information seems to represent something beyond the mere cosmetics of doublespeak , of a "garbage collector" turned "sanitary engineer" or a "strike" turned "work stoppage."

    • Synonyms

    *doubletalk

    See also

    *(wikipedia "doublespeak")

    lying

    English

    (wikipedia lying)

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1811 , , Sense and Sensibility The Free Library , Chapter 19:
    • Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
  • * Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    • But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?