propaganda

Noun

Meaning

A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions.

The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623-1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world.

Hence, any organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

newspeak information campaign literature publication doctrine advertising marketing circular spin notice publicity rhetoric announcement pushing
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Antonyms

fact concordance accuracy correspondence accordance abortion
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Hypernyms

information info

Hyponyms

agitprop

Phrases with the word

election propaganda propaganda laundering propaganda and agitation department

Examples

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. Eric Hoffer

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Hannah Arendt

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. Noam Chomsky

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. Douglas MacArthur

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. Noam Chomsky

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth. John F. Kennedy

Close letter words and terms

propagability propagable propagand propaganda and agitation department propaganda by the deed propaganda laundering