| Bokanovsky’s process | artificial process involving hard x-rays used to induce human egg to divide and bud up to 96 times |
| Viviparous | bearing or bringing forth live yount, which develop in the mother’s body. Most mammals do this. |
| Hyponpaedia | “greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time”; the process of implanting programmed thoughts and responses to moral or social situation through repetition while a person sleeps |
| soma | a hallucinant that sedates and calms the people. drug used by government to help maintain social stability. over time causes respiratory system to shut down |
| free-martin | 70% of female population; sterile when decanted, have tendency to grow facial hair |
| surrogate | substitute |
| pneumatic | filled with compressed as, as a tire might be (Lenina wants to know if she is “pneumatic enough” in reference to her bust)…”full of air” |
| promiscuity | not restricted to one sexual partner |
| decanting | being “born” from a bottle; pouring from on container into another. decanting takes place of live birth. complicated scientific process that resembles that of a test-tube baby, involves extracted ovaries and the close monitoring and control of the end product |
| Neo-Pavlovian | reference to work done by Russian scientist Pavlov who helped develop the idea of conditioning |
| Predestine | to determine in advance; the beings in society are given a place in society before they are ever born |
| Propaganda | ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage and opposing cause |
| slough | dead tissue separated from living structure |
| cabaret | a large restaurant providing liquor and musical entertainment |
| solidarity | union of fellowship as between members of a group |
| conditioning | characterized by a consistent pattern of learned or acquired behaviors; “programmed” response to a specific stimulus |
| Death conditioning | starts at eighteen months and is meant to trivialize death |
| hypnopaedia (sleep teaching) | gives moral and social teachings |
| classical | teaches likes and dislikes of physical things |
| mescal | distilled from fermented juice of cactus; Linda’s surrogate soma |
| budding | splitting the fertilized embryo |
| feelies | “movie”; allows viewer to experience sensory images |
| Malthusian Drill | procedure all fertile women perform to avoid contraception |
Brave New World Terms
June 8, 2020