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Mindscrew vs Mindfuck - What's the difference?

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Mindfuck is a synonym of mindscrew.



As nouns the difference between mindscrew and mindfuck

is that mindscrew is something that destabilizes, confuses, or manipulates a person's mind while mindfuck is something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses or manipulates the mind of another person.

As verbs the difference between mindscrew and mindfuck

is that mindscrew is to destabilize, confuse, or manipulate a person's mind while mindfuck is to intentionally destabilize, confuse or manipulate the mind of another person.

mindscrew

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that destabilizes, confuses, or manipulates a person's mind.
  • *2009 , Jay A. Fernandez, " Abrams making a name for himself, but it's not Steven Spielberg just yet", The Hollywood Reporter , 12 May 2009:
    • It's in television that Abrams, arguably more than Spielberg, has nudged the medium forward, with "Felicity," then "Alias" and finally the mindscrew of "Lost."
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    • Synonyms

    *brainfuck (vulgar), headfuck (vulgar), mindfuck (vulgar)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To destabilize, confuse, or manipulate a person's mind.
  • *1997 , , Trespasses: Portraits of a Serial Rapist , Penguin (1997), ISBN 9780140249712:
    • About half the detectives thought his return to the old neighborhood was proof positive that he was out of control; still others believed he had ice water running through his veins, maybe even mindscrewing the cops by rubbing their noses in the fact they couldn't stop him even though they suspected who he was
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    • mindfuck

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, vulgar) Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses or manipulates the mind of another person.
  • * 2006 , Ska Child, David Harris, Skavoovee , p. 106:
    • The first four weeks of basic training were designed to be a total mindfuck . It started from the moment they stepped off the bus and were punished for not knowing how to stand at attention, even though they'd never been taught.
  • * 2001 , Mick Farren, Darklost , p. 311:
    • It's a mindfuck . It's just lasers and shit, like the haunted house in Disneyland.
  • * 1996 , Christopher Kyle, the monogamist , p. 53:
    • This is a total mindfuck . I guess you know we broke up.
  • * 1968 Student Union for Peace Action, Our Generation , p. 66:
    • The actual naked fact of Establishment power in the person of the police was a real mindfuck .

    Derived terms

    *mindfuckery

    Synonyms

    * brainfuck (vulgar), headfuck (vulgar), mindscrew

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang, vulgar) To intentionally destabilize, confuse or manipulate the mind of another person.
  • * 2007 , Jackie Kessler, The Road to Hell? , p. 67:
    • I hated it when other entities mindfuck ed me.
  • * 2003 , Adam Gorightly et al., The Prankster and the Conspiracy , p. 136:
    • In response to all of this Bavarian Illuminati paranoia, Kerry—in the midst of Garrison's probe — decided to mindfuck Garrison all the more by sending out suggesting that he (Kerry) was an agent of the Bavarian Illuminati.
  • * 1974 , Connie Brissenden, The Factory Lab Anthology? , p. 10:
    • Two young Canadians get mindfuck ed by a giant American, but they kill him in the end and then start in on each other.