| Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, Epsilons | The five castes of Utopia. |
| Anthrax Bomb | A pre-Utopian weapon for germ warfare. |
| Bokanovsky Process | A method whereby a human egg has its normal development arrested, whereupon it proceeds to bud, producing many identical eggs. |
| Bottling | The process of putting artificially created embryos into sow peritoneum-lined bottles where they can mature. |
| Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy | A complicated ball game played with complicated equipment. |
| Chemical Persuasion | The use of chemical stimulants and tranquilizers to control the wills of men and thus make them receptive to suggestion. |
| Community Sing | A pseudo-religious and fraternal meeting for the lower classes. |
| Decanting | That process whereby Utopian embryos are removed from the bottles in which they have matured. |
| Ectogenesis | Birth outside the human body. |
| Electromagnetic Golf, Escalator Squash, Obsticle Golf, Riemann-Surface Tennis | Utopian sports played with elaborate equipment to increase consumption. |
| Emotional Engineering | The profession whose practitioners prepare propagandistic diversions for the state’s populace. |
| Erotic Play | A pastime of the Utopian children in which they explore one another’s bodies, designed to forestall any adult feelings of guilt concerning sex. |
| Feelies | An elaborate motion picture in which the audience takes hold of two knobs on the seat and thus feels the action taking place in the screen. |
| Fertilizing Room | The room where human sex cells are artificially united. |
| Five Step | A popular Utopian dance. |
| Ford | The Utopian idol. |
| Freemartin | A sterilized Utopian woman- the majority. |
| Hypnopaedia | Teaching during sleep; used to drum prejudices into the subconscious of the sleeper. |
| Internal and External Secretion Trust | The Utopian organization that is in charge of hormones and extracts to keep the people young and happy. |
| Liners and Matriculators | Employees in the Bottling Room. |
| Malthusian Belt | A device to discourage sex in the unsterilized woman. |
| Malthusian Drill | For the sterilized females- a routine to prevent pregnancy. |
| Musical Bridge | One of the Utopian games. |
| Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning (or simply Conditioning) | An intricate psychological procedure in which a bad stimulus is substituted for a good one to remove an undesirable response, or in which a good stimulus may be substituted for a bad one in order to strengthen a desirable response. |
| Orgy-Porgy | A semi-religious rite in which indiscriminate wholesale sexual relations produce solidarity in the members. |
| Phosphorous Recovery | That process whereby phosphorous is captured from the cremated bodies and returned to enrich the soil. |
| Pneumatic | Said of some the Utopian women, buxom. |
| Podsnap’s Technique | A method of artificially hastening the ripening of the embryos. |
| Power Elite | A small group which governs artificially by means of force. |
| Pregnancy Substitute | A medical procedure in which Utopian women are given all the psychological benefits of childbirth without undergoing it. |
| Savage Reservation | A place where those persons were confined who were not considered worthy of converting to Utopian ways. |
| Scent and Color Organ | A console that plays concertos of fragrant aromas and capriccios of colored lights. |
| Sexaphone | A popular band instrument in Utopia. |
| Sex-hormone Chewing Gum | One of the artificial contrivances to promote sexual satisfaction without conception. |
| Social Predestination | A process whereby a card file of data on all individuals in Utopia is used to establish a quota system for those types of persons the state is about to create. |
| Solidarity Service | A pseudo-religious and fraternal meeting for upper classes. |
| Soma | The religion of the people; it comes in many forms, mainly tablets. It is a pacifier which lulls the passions and understandings of the people; a major instrument of social stability. (The name refers to an actual narcotic used by the ancient Hindus.) |
| Subliminal Projection | An image presented to the sight or words to the hearing for a matter of microseconds and superimposed upon visual or auditory entertainment. What is seen or heard in that lighting-like interval lodges in the subconscious and tends to be a powerful influence on subsequent behavior. |
| Super-Vox-Wurlitzeriana | A synthetic-music box. |
| Surrogate | A substitute for something, or the thing in an adulterated form. |
| T-Model | Utopian counterpart of the Christian cross; Ford removed the top bar, making a T. |
| Violent Passion Surrogate (V.P.S.) | Another chemical devised to give the body the psychological feeling of having had normal sexual relations. |
| Voice of Good Feeling | The artificial voice that quells any riot by lulling the populace with pacific suggestions from loudspeakers. |
| Will-to-Order | That compulsion in man which urges him to create unity out of multiplicity, and hence to over organize things. |
| callow | unsophisticated |
| sententiously | wisely |
| maudlin | unsentimental |
| simian | ape-like |
| proliferate | multiply |
| deferential | respectful |
| surreptitious | secret |
| ruminating | chewing |
| burgeoned | blossomed |
| quartos | books |
| effusive | gushing |
| incandescence | brilliance |
| prodigious | enormous |
| sibilant | hissing |
| discarnate | spiritual |
| asceticism | self-denial |
| demijohn | bottle |
| imperative | command |
| evocation | portrayal |
| atonement | satisfaction |
| surrogate | substitute |
| apertures | openings |
| pneumatic | voluptuous |
| derisively | jeeringly |
| satiety | fullness |
| carping | critical |
| moribund | dying |
| galvanized | aroused |
| blasphemy | irreverence |
| queue | line |
| interminable | endless |
| paroxysm | outburst |
| solecism | blunder |
| scathing | damaging |
| peremptorily | imperatively |
| avowed | acknowledged |
| innocuous | harmless |
| magnanimous | generous |
| propitiate | pacify |
| vindictively | spitefully |
| emphatically | forcefully |
| mollified | calmed |
| carapace | shell |
| carrion | corpse |
| ignominy | dishonor |
| ingratiating | flattering |
| deprecating | disapprovingly |
| turpitude | depravity |
| scatological | obscene |
| impudent | sassy |
Brave New World Terms
June 7, 2020