# menticide

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. Brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs.
2. Efforts to destroy the mind or the will of an individual or group of people.

## Etymology
From Latin mēns (“mind”) or mentālis (“mental”) + -cide (“killing”), from Latin -cīdium, by analogy to homicide, genocide, etc. Coined during the 1950s.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/menticide